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

Danversport, 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 Buxton Hill. The Survey maps it on the Salem quadrangle.

Danversport 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 Danversport, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Danversport, 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

84 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Danversport between 2006 and 2020, burning about 251 acres in total. 1 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	22
Smoking	18
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Fireworks	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
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
27 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	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
12 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DANVERS
9 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LYNN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 8,948 shown

Museums hold 8,948 specimens collected within 10 miles of Danversport between 1800 and 1975: 3,369 Plantae, 3,026 Animalia, 1,172 Fungi, 748 Chromista, 444 Unrecorded, 143 Bacteria, 46 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A B. Proper, A H HIGGINSON, 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
Rhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta (Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel.	1800	R. B. Mackintosh	Peabody
Erysiphaceae	1803	A. B. Seymour
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
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

All 8,948 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Danversport: 5 plants, 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Iron. 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
(Facility) Travers Labs Refinery--Beverly, Ma.	Mercury, Silver, Gold, REE	Plant
Hale Engineering Co--Danvers, Ma.	Tungsten	Plant
Saugus Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
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
Thiokol Ventron Div--Beverly, Ma.	Zirconium	Plant
Ventron Corp--Beverly, Ma.	Zirconium	Past Producer
Danvers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Essex Bituminous Concrete Products	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

2 since 2021

The National Weather Service names Danversport in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Danversport	$8,000	In Danvers at 334 AM EDT (234 AM EST), there was a photo from the media of a large tree limb downed on Fowler Street, which damaged a pickup truck. In addition, amateur radio operators reported a large tree limb down blocking part of nearby Ash Street.
June 2022	Lightning	Danversport	$5,000	In Danvers, lightning struck a house, causing an attic fire.

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
Rial Side	1.3 miles	42
Peabody	1.5 miles	42
Tapleyville	1.5 miles	42
North Salem	1.7 miles	42
Danvers	1.9 miles	42
Proctor	1.9 miles	42
Beverly	2.2 miles	42
Salem	2.4 miles	42

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122555671

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614223. 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.