Essex Falls, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1888 1997

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.

• Essex Town Hall and TOHP Burnham Librarylisted 2007 · 0.6 miles away
• David Burnham Houselisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 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 Ipswich quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Ipswich quadrangle1:31680
• 1950 USGS Ipswich quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Ipswich quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Ipswich quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Ipswich quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
• 1997 USGS Ipswich quadrangle1:25000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Essex Falls between 2015 and 2020, burning about 21 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:

• Essex
• South Essex
• Aqawam (historical)
• Ipswich
• Manchester-by-the-Sea
• Beverly Farms

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 6,814 specimens collected within 10 miles of Essex Falls between 1821 and 1975: 2,306 Animalia, 2,232 Plantae, 1,320 Fungi, 404 Chromista, 397 Unrecorded, 95 Protozoa, 60 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
	Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.	1900	Clara E. Cummings
	Brasenia schreberi J.F.Gmel.	1821	not recorded	Pleasant Pond, Wenham, Mass.
	Glyceria obtusa (Muhl.) Trin.	1838	W Oakes
	Lecanora tartarea (L.) Ach.	1839	E. Tuckerman	Manchester
	Ochrolechia yasudae Vainio	1839	Tuckerman, E.	[USA] Manchester, Massachusetts.
	Clethra alnifolia L.	1840	OakesHerbarium	Rowley
	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
	Laminaria saccharina (L.) J.V.Lamour.	1842	N. Pike	Plum Island

All 6,814 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Essex Falls: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Essex County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614537. 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.