Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2014. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Ramsdell Public Library is one of two public library buildings of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It is located at 1087 Main Street in the Housatonic village, in a two-story Beaux Arts building erected c. 1908.”
Wikipedia article Ramsdell Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 94 National Register listings in Berkshire County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Berkshire County.
National Register reference number. 14000440 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
26 since 2014
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Ramsdell Public Library between
2014 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning
17
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Natural
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Smoking
1
Other causes
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,845 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ramsdell Public Library between 1833 and
1975: 859 Plantae, 750 Animalia, 229 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A W Evans, A. Brown, A. E. Treat 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
13 workings within 5 miles of Ramsdell Public Library: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Great Barrington, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 27 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 flood.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
Trees and wires were reported down in Great Barrington due to strong thunderstorm winds. One downed tree and wires trapped 2 people in their vehicle, as a tree fell outside of The Country Dining Room Antiques Store on Main Street. The tree snapped in half and knocked down a utility pole on Rosseter Street, downing live power lines and falling on top of the vehicle, trapping a woman and her husband inside.||The woman sustained a broken neck, and may be permanently paralyzed.
Heavy rain led to minor flooding near Great Barrington, and also widespread ponding of water in low lying, poor drainage areas across Berkshire County. Several roads were closed in the vicinity of Lee due to flooded roadways.||In addition, the Green River near Great Barrington exceeded its flood stage of 7 feet at 6:12 AM LST, cresting at moderate stage of 10.08 feet at 11 AM LST.
Penny to golf ball size hail was reported in and near Great Barrington during a thunderstorm.||The largest hail, up to golf ball size, was reported approximately 1 mile east northeast of Great Barrington.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.
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