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Woronoco, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Russell town. It lies in ZIP code area 01097. It stands on Potash Brook. The Survey maps it on the Woronoco quadrangle.

Woronoco within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Woronoco, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Woronoco, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

37 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires nearby

45 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Woronoco between 2010 and 2020, burning about 392 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
11 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 August 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,011 shown

Museums hold 2,011 specimens collected within 10 miles of Woronoco between 1822 and 1975: 1,246 Fungi, 599 Plantae, 95 Animalia, 55 Chromista, 16 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & Clara E. Cummings and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of FungiFungi1890Seymour, Arthur BlissGranville
Specimen of Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1890Arthur B. SeymourGranville
Specimen of Lycopodiella inundata (L.) HolubLycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub1892ChapmanSouthhampton
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylloidea, not of this specimenPorella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.1822EmmonsNorwich
A photograph of the species Carex bromoides, not of this specimenCarex bromoides Willd.1831Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Panax quinquefolius, not of this specimenPanax quinquefolius L.1831Collector unspecifiedBlandford
A photograph of the species Carex vesicaria, not of this specimenCarex vesicaria L.1836Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex vestita, not of this specimenCarex vestita Willd.1836Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex siccata, not of this specimenCarex siccata Dewey1844Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Amphicarpaea bracteata, not of this specimenAmphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald1845Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Alopecurus geniculatus, not of this specimenAlopecurus geniculatus L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Lactuca hirsuta, not of this specimenLactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.1850Collector unspecified

All 2,011 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 17 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Woronoco: 7 producers, 6 past producers, 4 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hampden Marble Quarry SeriesMarble, DimensionPast Producer
John S Lane and Son IncStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Osburn Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic
Southampton AreaZinc, Lead, VanadiumOccurrenceDescloizite, Vanadinite
Westfield DepositKyaniteOccurrence
Westfield Quarry Plants L & 2Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Blandford Mica MineMicaProducerMica
Blandford Mica MineMicaOccurrence
Hampden Marble Quarry Serpentine QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Moore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

4 since 2021

The National Weather Service names Woronoco in 4 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWoronoco$800In Russell, a tree and wires were down on Route 23 at Route 20.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWoronoco$500In Russell, a tree was down at the intersection of Route 23 and Route 20.
May 2024HailWoronoco-In Russell, quarter sized hail was reported along Rt. 23.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindWoronoco-In Russell two trees were down on General Knox Road.

Every storm recorded in Hampden County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Camp Woronoak2.3 miles37
South Quarter2.3 miles37
Russell2.4 miles37
Woronoco Heights2.4 miles37
Wyben2.8 miles37
West Farms3.1 miles37
Montgomery3.2 miles37
Mundale3.3 miles42

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122544203The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608531. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.