Carlisle, 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

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 2 records

• George Robbins Houselisted 1990
• Zeb Spaulding Houselisted 1990

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Unitarian Church, Carlislefederal building survey, 1 photograph

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 Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1918 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1941 USGS Billerica quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Billerica quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Billerica quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Billerica quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Billerica quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Billerica quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Billerica quadrangle1:25000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Carlisle between 2008 and 2020, burning about 19 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.

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:

• South Chelmsford
• Carlisle Station
• Rio Vista
• Riverside
• South Billerica
• Bedford

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 535 specimens collected within 10 miles of Carlisle between 1898 and 1975: 251 Animalia, 199 Plantae, 77 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley, A. E. Feldman 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
	Boletus griseus Frost	1898	H. Webster
	Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1898	Collector(s): Will C. Colt	Lincoln
	Esox americanus Gmelin, 1789	1898	E. Preble	Maple Meadow Brook near Wilmington, Massachusetts
	Exosporium pusillum P.Karst.	1898	King C. A.	Stony Brook
	Lophodermium pinastri (Schrad.) Chevall.	1898	Hubbard F. T.; Hall G. G.	Lincoln
	Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1898	not recorded	Lincoln
	Podura aquatica C.Linnæus, 1758	1898	not recorded
	Rosa nitida Willd.	1898	C. H. Knowlton
	Salix eriocephala Michx.	1898	E. F. Williams
	Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	Thaxter, R.	Stony Brook
	Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1900	E. F. Williams
	Boletus frostii J.L.Russell	1900	A. W. Flint

All 535 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Carlisle: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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 Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlisle in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 Middlesex 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 611774. 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.