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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Bay View, Massachusetts

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Gloucester City. It lies in ZIP code area 01930. It stands on Annisquam River. The Survey maps it on the Gloucester OE N quadrangle.

Bay View within Essex County

Then and now

1886 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bay View, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Bay View, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

28 sheets

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.

Fires nearby

21 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Bay View between 2016 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 July 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGLOUCESTER
3 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlROCKPORT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 4,628 shown

Museums hold 4,628 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bay View between 1817 and 1975: 1,538 Plantae, 1,466 Animalia, 1,135 Fungi, 316 Chromista, 93 Protozoa, 60 Unrecorded, 20 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A H HIGGINSON, A Perlmutter, A. A. Eaton 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.1900Clara E. Cummings
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 17581817not recordedLoblolly Cove, Cape Ann
A photograph of the species Lecanora tartarea, not of this specimenLecanora tartarea (L.) Ach.1839E. TuckermanManchester
A photograph of the species Ochrolechia yasudae, not of this specimenOchrolechia yasudae Vainio1839Tuckerman, E.[USA] Manchester, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Euphorbia polygonifolia, not of this specimenEuphorbia polygonifolia L.1840Wolle, J.Ipswich
A photograph of the species Iva frutescens, not of this specimenIva frutescens L.1840Oakesad Ipswich
A photograph of the species Potentilla anserina, not of this specimenPotentilla anserina L.1840Wolle, J.Ipswich
A photograph of the species Sisymbrium officinale, not of this specimenSisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.1840OakesIpswich
A photograph of the species Laminaria saccharina, not of this specimenLaminaria saccharina (L.) J.V.Lamour.1842N. PikePlum Island
A photograph of the species Splachnum ampullaceum, not of this specimenSplachnum ampullaceum Hedw.1843A. Gray; W. S. SullivantManchester
A photograph of the species Ceramium rubrum, not of this specimenCeramium rubrum C.Agardh1847N. PikeCape Ann
A photograph of the species Juncus dichotomus, not of this specimenJuncus dichotomus Elliott1848Oakes

All 4,628 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Bay View: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
John R MorseSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Johnson QuarryGranitePast Producer
Mc Niff-Dominic PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcniff Co IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morse PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rockport Quarries IncGranitePast ProducerGranite
Town of RockportGranitePast ProducerGranite
Town of Rockport QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rowley Shore0.5 miles28
Lanesville0.6 miles28
Annisquam1.0 miles28
Pigeon Cove1.7 miles39
Riverdale Station2.0 miles28
Wingaersheek (historical)2.0 miles28
Dogtown Commons2.3 miles28
Ocean View2.4 miles39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614921. 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.