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

Burleys Corner, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Danvers town. It lies in ZIP code area 01923. It stands on Norris Brook. The Survey maps it on the Salem quadrangle.

Burleys Corner within Essex County

Then and now

1888 to 1985

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Burleys Corner, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Burleys Corner, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

105 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Burleys Corner between 2003 and 2020, burning about 305 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 ceremony	26
Debris and open burning	23
Smoking	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	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
7 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BEVERLY
27 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PEABODY
15 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LYNNFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 7,121 shown

Museums hold 7,121 specimens collected within 10 miles of Burleys Corner between 1800 and 1975: 3,239 Animalia, 2,428 Plantae, 825 Fungi, 253 Unrecorded, 235 Chromista, 133 Bacteria, 8 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A B. Proper, A E Preble, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Corylus americana Walter	1900	E. F. Williams
Populus grandidentata Michx.	1900	E. F. Williams
Rhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta (Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel.	1800	R. B. Mackintosh	Peabody
Erysiphaceae	1803	A. B. Seymour
Viola labradorica Schrank	1816	not recorded	Andover Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston U.S.A.
Brasenia schreberi J.F.Gmel.	1821	not recorded	Pleasant Pond, Wenham, Mass.
Diphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr	1822	ALCOTT
Arcyria oerstedii Rostaf., 1875	1826	F. A. Gilbert
Glyceria obtusa (Muhl.) Trin.	1838	W Oakes
Desmarestia viridis (O.F.Müll.) J.V.Lamour.	1841	C. E. Pease	Marblehead
Carex caryophyllea Latourr.	1847	C. Dewey	Salem
Carex muhlenbergii Kunth ex Boott	1847	F. M. B. Boott

All 7,121 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Burleys Corner: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 2 plants. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Thorium, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hale Engineering Co--Danvers, Ma.	Tungsten	Plant
Thiokol Ventron Div--Danvers, Ma.	Thorium	Plant
Camillieri Corp Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Donald Innis Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Danvers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Essex Bituminous Concrete Products	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Peabody Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

2 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Burleys Corner in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2021	Flood	Burleys Corner	$200	In Danvers, amateur radio operators reported one foot of street flooding on Hathorne Avenue.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Burleys Corner	-	At 10 AM EST, Maple Street in Danvers near the Middleton town line had street flooding to a depth of one foot.

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Middleton Colony	0.9 miles	42
Hathorne	1.0 miles	42
Howe	1.3 miles	42
Brigadoon Village	1.4 miles	40
Danvers Center	1.6 miles	42
Beaver Brook (historical)	1.7 miles	42
Ferncroft	1.7 miles	42
Middleton	1.9 miles	40

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614208. 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.