Ballardvale, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1988

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 Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:25000
• 1966 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:25000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Ballardvale between 2015 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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:

• Andover
• Lowell Junction
• West Andover
• Haggetts
• Shawsheen Village
• West Parish

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Museums hold 2,108 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ballardvale between 1803 and 1975: 945 Plantae, 909 Animalia, 225 Fungi, 18 Bacteria, 5 Chromista, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E Preble, A S Gaunt, A. B. Seymour 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
	Corylus americana Walter	1900	E. F. Williams
	Populus grandidentata Michx.	1900	E. F. Williams
	Erysiphaceae	1803	A. B. Seymour
	Lupinus L.	1816	Boott, F.M.B.	Mystic Pond, 6 miles from Boston.
	Viola labradorica Schrank	1816	not recorded	Andover Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston U.S.A.
	Diphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr	1822	ALCOTT
	Arcyria oerstedii Rostaf., 1875	1826	F. A. Gilbert
	Eleocharis robbinsii Oakes	1829	B. D. Greene
	Potentilla argentea L.	1830	A. P. Bhute
	Microspora stagnorum (Kütz.) Lagerh.	1848	Collector unknown	on willow trees, Willow[?] Road
	Polygala cruciata L.	1848	not recorded
	Polygala polygama Walter	1848	not recorded

All 2,108 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Ballardvale: 8 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Titanium, 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.

Every working recorded in Essex County

The National Weather Service names Ballardvale in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 1 flood. 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 Essex 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 612285. 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.