Hampshire CountyMassachusetts
Amherst Town, Massachusetts
Bedrock sits a median 28 ft down across 119 logs, deeper than the Massachusetts median of 24 ft. None of its 15 inventoried bridges is rated poor.
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Median depth to bedrock
28 ft
middle half 14–55 ft · 119 logs
Bridges rated poor
0
of 15 inventoried
State resilience grants
$847K
3 awards on file
Construction projects
43
median $1.6M · public bid results
01 · Ground
Rock turns up a median 28 ft down
From 119 depth-to-rock records inside Amherst Town (MassGIS / MGS borings & well logs). Logs cluster where people drill wells and bore for roads, so treat this as the town’s pattern, not a site answer.
Half of Amherst Town's logs reach rock between 14 and 55 ft
Depth to bedrock: 10th–90th percentile whisker, middle-half box, median tick; dashed line = Massachusetts median.
median 28 ftMA 24 ft
050100 ft
n = 119 logsSource: MassGIS / MGS borings & well logs
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| Depth to rock (ft) | Logs |
|---|---|
| 0–5 | 2 |
| 5–10 | 12 |
| 10–20 | 29 |
| 20–50 | 43 |
| 50–100 | 18 |
| 100+ | 15 |
Rock within 10 ft
18%
of logs (23% across Massachusetts). Shallow rock means ledge in excavations, refusal for driven piles and rock anchors rather than soil nails; deep ground means taller shoring and more groundwater. 28% of logs here go past 50 ft.
02 · Money & permits
43 construction projects on file, median $1.6M — above the state's $1.5M
| Project | Year | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Fort River Watershed Culvert Assessment & Prioritization Plan | FY2026 | $428K |
| Puffer's Pond Dam and Dike Repairs Design | FY2025 | $250K |
| Fort River Watershed Improvements for Flood & Water Quality Resiliency | FY2024 | $169K |
Public construction projects
43
Median estimated value $1.6M, middle half $888K–$3.8M, against $1.5M across Massachusetts. Capped total $264M (each project counted at no more than $100M). Public bid records compiled June 2026, heavy on 2021–22 — a sample, not an annual market.
03 · Bridges
None of Amherst Town's 15 bridges is rated poor
Every highway bridge and large culvert in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory that stands inside Amherst Town. Median age 61 years.
13% good, 0% poor
FHWA good / fair / poor rating — the lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert.
- Good2 · 13%
- Fair13 · 87%
- Poor0 · 0%
Structures by decade built
n = 15 structuresSource: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025
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| Built | Structures |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 2 |
| 1940s | 1 |
| 1950s | 4 |
| 1960s | 2 |
| 1970s | 3 |
| 2000s | 2 |
| 2010s | 1 |
04 · Dams & disasters
Hampshire County has drawn $37.2M in federal disaster repair since 2010
FEMA Public Assistance is reported by county, so the figure below is Hampshire County-wide context, not a Amherst Town number.
FEMA Public Assistance, Hampshire County
$37.2M
Federal share obligated across 283 projects in 5 declared disasters since 2010. The largest category is emergency protective measures (91%); roads & bridges took $453K.
05 · Next door
Amherst Town and the 8 towns that border it
A dash means no data for that layer, not zero.
| Town | Poor bridges | Rock depth |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst Town, MA | 0 / 15 | 28 ft |
| South Hadley, MA | 1 / 11 | 63 ft |
| Leverett, MA | 1 / 10 | 23 ft |
| Belchertown, MA | 1 / 10 | 28 ft |
| Hadley, MA | 1 / 9 | 125 ft |
| Granby, MA | 0 / 8 | 27 ft |
| Pelham, MA | 0 / 3 | 22 ft |
| Sunderland, MA | 0 / 1 | 50 ft |
| Shutesbury, MA | 0 / 1 | 32 ft |
Where these numbers come from
Method, sources & caveats
Amherst Town is the Census county subdivision 2501501370 (Hampshire County). Every record is placed here by its coordinates, not by the place name the source uses. Construction-project figures come from Massachusetts public bid results, published as town-level counts, medians and capped totals (n ≥ 10).
- Towns are Census county subdivisions: cities, towns, plantations, and Maine/New Hampshire unorganized territories and townships. Every record is placed in a town by its coordinates (point-in-polygon), not by the source's own place label — so a bridge in Roxbury counts for Boston and a well in 'North Waltham' counts for Waltham.
- Bridges: FHWA NBI 2025, highway structures ≥ 20 ft including large culverts. 'Poor' is FHWA's good/fair/poor rating (lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert ≤ 4). Percent-poor is shown only for towns with at least 5 structures.
- Depth to bedrock is the median of driller- and boring-reported depths in the town, shown only where at least 10 logs exist. Water-well logs over-sample rural lots and hilltops; one town median never describes a particular site.
- Bedrock depths use the same state databases and filters as the Bedrock & soils module (bedrock wells and borings that reached rock, 0 < depth ≤ 400 ft, exact re-filings dropped), but every log is placed in a town by its coordinates rather than the driller's town field, so town counts can differ slightly between the two pages. Connecticut and Rhode Island have no statewide public well-log database with depths.
- Dams: only high-hazard-potential dams whose latest condition assessment is Poor or Unsatisfactory are counted (live NID). Connecticut and Rhode Island assessments may lag.
- FEMA Public Assistance dollars are federal share obligated for disasters declared since 2010, reported by county — they are county context, not a town figure.
- Grant awards are Massachusetts only (EEA Dam & Seawall program, MVP Action grants, CZM Coastal Resilience). Other states' programs are not yet included.
- Ground-related permit counts cover only the municipal portals the pipeline reads (Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Worcester, Framingham, Providence, Portsmouth, Hartford and a few others) — an absent count means 'not covered', not zero.
- Data as of
- Sep 11, 2026
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- U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files — county subdivisions (2024, 1:500k)Public domain
- FHWA National Bridge Inventory (2025 delimited files)Public domain
- USACE National Inventory of DamsPublic domainHigh-hazard dams rated Poor or Unsatisfactory (live NID).
- USGS U.S. Landslide InventoryPublic domain
- MassGIS / Massachusetts Geological Survey — Bedrock Data PointsPublic recordBorings and well logs that reached rock (MassDEP well drillers, USGS, MWRA, MassDOT…); seismic/HVSR and map-derived shallow-bedrock/outcrop points excluded.
- NH DES Water Well Inventory, Maine Geological Survey Wells Database, Vermont DEC well recordsPublic recordBedrock wells only; driller-reported depth to bedrock / overburden thickness.
- OpenFEMA Public Assistance Funded Projects Details (v2)Public domain
- MA EEA / CZM grant awards — Dam & Seawall, MVP Action, CZM Coastal ResiliencePublic record
- Municipal open-data permit portals (Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Providence, Portsmouth, others)Public recordOnly permits flagged as ground-related (retaining walls, excavation, foundations) are counted.
Published by Earth Support Corp as a public resource. Regional statistics for planning and curiosity. They are not an engineering report, a bid recommendation or a statement about any particular site, firm or project. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it. Full method: methodology.