Zoar, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1998

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.

• 1886 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Brattleboro quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1973 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1973 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:25000
• 1997 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1998 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Zoar between 2003 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hoosac Tunnel Station
• Rowe
• Camp Rowe
• Monroe Bridge
• Hawley
• Charlemont

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Museums hold 324 specimens collected within 10 miles of Zoar between 1878 and 1975: 149 Plantae, 139 Fungi, 27 Animalia, 7 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Ahles, H. E., Ahles, H.E., Britton McCabe 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood	1900	F. F. Forbes
	Cyperus fuscus L.	1878	C. E. Faxon
	Galeopsis ladanum L.	1878	not recorded
	Symphyotrichum lanceolatum (Willd.) G.L.Nesom	1878	T. Morong
	Juglans cinerea L.	1895	C. W. Trow	Buckland.
	Gentiana andrewsii Griseb.	1901	Fayette Frederick Forbes	Massachusetts, Buckland, wet soil
	Gentianopsis crinita (Froel.) Ma	1901	Fayette Frederick Forbes	Massachusetts, Buckland in moist soil
	Carex communis var. communis	1902	F. F. Forbes	Buckland. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Viola L.	1902	Forbes, F.F.	Buckland. Franklin Co.
	Viola blanda Willd.	1902	not recorded
	Dasyscyphus calycinus (Schumach.) Fuckel	1927	Hansbrough J. R.; Skellenger L. E.	Charlemont
	Morrisonia latex (Guenée, 1852)	1928	not recorded	Monroe

All 324 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Zoar: 15 occurrences, 11 prospects, 10 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Copper, Sulfur, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Franklin County

The National Weather Service names Zoar in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608003. 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.