BlockBeverly Farms, Massachusetts
40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Beverly City. It lies in ZIP code area 01915. It lies near Pride Rock. The Survey maps it on the Marblehead North quadrangle.
Then and now
1888 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Beverly Farms
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Houselisted 1972 · 0.2 miles away
Captain Robert Haskell Houselisted 2022 · 0.4 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 surveys from 40 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
- 1917 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Cape Ann quadrangle1:125000
- 1945 USGS Marblehead North quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Marblehead North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Marblehead North quadrangle1:24000
- 1970 USGS Marblehead North quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Marblehead North quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
23,730 words on this townshipHistory of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1888 names this settlement in its chapter on Beverly City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Josejih Lee, a brother-in-law of the Cabots, was also associated with them in business. He was born in Salem in 1744, and died in Boston in 1831. During his residence in Beverly, and throughout his life, he gave great attention to the designing of vessels, being of material aid to naval architecture. He gave twenty thousand dollars to the Massachusetts general hospital. His grandson, Henry Lee, who married a granddaughter of Andrew Cabot, resides on a fine estate at Beverly Farms.
Passage source: History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1888.
About this time Beverly began to receive accessions in peojile who came, at first, merely for a summer's stay, but who eventually purchased property here and obtained a foothold as owners of real estate. Attracted by the beauties of the shore, several residents of Salem and Boston sought and obtained board with the farmers of the eastern part of the town, in the section known as Beverly Farms. This region was always a rural one, and thinly populated, though early settled : the Wests, Woodburys, Haskells, Thissells, Obers and Larcoms being among the first; the Woodburys especially numerous, descendants of the original William and Humphrey, who located at Woodburys' Points about 1630. By direct inheritance, by grants and by Intermarriage, they had acquired a great deal of the coast property.
Passage source: History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1888.
1879. - Dr. Wyatt C. Boyden deceased, after a long residence in Beverly, at the age of eighty-seven. He was born in Gardner, Mass., in 1794, but reared in Tamworth, N. H., where his early life was passed on a farm. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1819, a class-mate with Rufus Choate, and he was the last survivor of his class. Dr. Boyden came to Beverly Farms in 1823, where he first taught school, and there married and began j^ractice as physician. In
Passage source: History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1888.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
30 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Beverly Farms between 2015 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
| 4 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
| 8 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
| 27 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
| 30 July 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
| 30 July 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
| 28 July 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
| 22 July 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 6,950 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 6,950 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beverly Farms between 1800 and 1975: 2,519 Animalia, 2,159 Plantae, 1,351 Fungi, 447 Unrecorded, 321 Chromista, 90 Protozoa, 63 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Rhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta (Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel. | 1800 | R. B. Mackintosh | Peabody |
 | Brasenia schreberi J.F.Gmel. | 1821 | not recorded | Pleasant Pond, Wenham, Mass. |
 | Lecanora tartarea (L.) Ach. | 1839 | E. Tuckerman | Manchester |
 | Ochrolechia yasudae Vainio | 1839 | Tuckerman, E. | [USA] Manchester, Massachusetts. |
 | Euphorbia polygonifolia L. | 1840 | Wolle, J. | Ipswich |
 | Iva frutescens L. | 1840 | Oakes | ad Ipswich |
 | Potentilla anserina L. | 1840 | Wolle, J. | Ipswich |
 | Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop. | 1840 | Oakes | Ipswich |
 | Desmarestia viridis (O.F.Müll.) J.V.Lamour. | 1841 | C. E. Pease | Marblehead |
 | Splachnum ampullaceum Hedw. | 1843 | A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant | Manchester |
 | Carex caryophyllea Latourr. | 1847 | C. Dewey | Salem |
 | Carex muhlenbergii Kunth ex Boott | 1847 | F. M. B. Boott |
All 6,950 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Beverly Farms: 2 plants, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium, Mercury, Silver, Gold, REE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Travers Labs Refinery--Beverly, Ma. | Mercury, Silver, Gold, REE | Plant | ||
| Atwater Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Thiokol Ventron Div--Beverly, Ma. | Zirconium | Plant | ||
| Ventron Corp--Beverly, Ma. | Zirconium | Past Producer | ||
| Manchester Crushed Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Manchester Sand and Stone Co. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prides Crossing | 0.8 miles | 40 | |
| West Manchester | 1.5 miles | 40 | |
| Centerville | 2.0 miles | 40 | |
| Beverly Cove | 2.4 miles | 40 | |
| Manchester-by-the-Sea | 2.4 miles | 40 | |
| Wenham Neck | 2.7 miles | 40 | |
| Montserrat | 2.9 miles | 40 | |
| Salem Neck | 3.7 miles | 40 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614640. 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.