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The Butternut Fire is an active wildfire in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It has burned an estimated 1,146 acres. It has burned an estimated 1,146 acres. It is zero percent contained as of November 20, 2024.
Great Barrington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,172 at the 2020 census. [1] Both a summer resort and home to Ski Butternut, a ski resort, Great Barrington includes the villages of Van Deusenville and Housatonic.
Great Barrington: Site of house where W.E.B. Du Bois, African American intellectual and activist, grew up. 34: Dwight–Henderson House: Dwight–Henderson House: March 26, 1976 : Main St. Great Barrington
Beartown State Forest is a publicly owned forest with recreational features located in the towns of Great Barrington, Monterey, Lee, and Tyringham, Massachusetts. [2] The state forest's more than 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) include 198 acres (80 ha) of recreational parkland. [2] It is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and ...
Housatonic is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Great Barrington in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,109 at the 2010 census. [2] It was named after the Housatonic River. [3]
The town has its own police, fire and public works departments, but does not have its own post office (it shares the Egremont, Great Barrington, and West Stockbridge post offices). The town's library is connected to the regional library system. The nearest hospital, Fairview Hospital, is located in neighboring Great Barrington.
Massachusetts, with forests covering 3,060,000 acres (12,400 km 2) (59%) of its land area, administers more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) [1] of state forest, wildlife and watershed land under the cabinet level Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Monument Mountain is a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) long quartzite ridgeline located in Great Barrington and Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the Berkshires geology. Beside the high point, 1,739 feet (530 m), the mountain has several distinct features, most notably the open, knife-edge Peeskawso Peak, [1] 1,642 feet (500 m) located on the southeast side of the mountain within the 503-acre (204 ha) Monument ...