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

Georgetown, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Georgetown town. It lies in ZIP code area 01833. It stands on Penn Brook. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle.

Georgetown within Essex County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

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.

Topographic sheet of Georgetown, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Georgetown, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

41 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

74 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown between 2015 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Recreation and ceremony	9
Arson/incendiarism	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
4 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	GROVELAND
23 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	GROVELAND
5 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BOXFORD
5 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	GROVELAND
5 August 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WEST NEWBURY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,065 shown

Museums hold 3,065 specimens collected within 10 miles of Georgetown between 1800 and 1975: 1,490 Plantae, 949 Animalia, 566 Fungi, 35 Chromista, 14 Protozoa, 9 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Brown, A. A. Eaton, A. A. Eaton; R. G. Leavitt 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
Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.	1900	John W. Huntington
Plagiotheciella latebricola (Schimp.) M.Fleisch.	1900	John W. Huntington
Rhodobryum roseum (Hedw.) Limpr.	1800	J. W. Huntington	Amesbury
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
Dichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin	1833	J. W. Huntington
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1833	J.S. Appleton	West Newbury
Glyceria obtusa (Muhl.) Trin.	1838	W Oakes
Clethra alnifolia L.	1840	OakesHerbarium	Rowley
Euphorbia polygonifolia L.	1840	Wolle, J.	Ipswich

All 3,065 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur, Lead. 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
Georgetown Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Harriman Mine	Sulfur	Past Producer
Newburyport Pb-A?^Ict	Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Groveland Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Trimount Bituminous Prdts Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Center Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Haverhill Sand Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Haverhill Sand Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Peter H Arekalian Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pines Speedway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

10 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Georgetown in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
June 1998	Flash Flood	Georgetown	$570,000	Parker River
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$15,000	Trees, tree limbs, and wires were downed onto Juniper Lane and Pingree Farm Road.
June 2021	Lightning	Georgetown	$10,000	In Georgetown, a house was struck by lightning on Lakeshore Drive, resulting in a fire.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$10,000	Trees were downed on Massachusetts Route 97 in Georgetown and on Ipswich Road in Boxford.
July 2021	Hail	Georgetown	-	In Georgetown, half dollar size hail was reported on Route 97, near the Georgetown and Groveland line.
July 2020	Flood	Georgetown	-	In Georgetown, West Main Street and several other streets were flooded and impassable.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Microburst occurred in Georgetown at approximately 7:10 pm EDT in Georgetown. Numerous trees and wires were downed. Winds estimated near 80 mph just southeast of the Crane Pond Wildlife Management Area.
June 2007	Hail	Georgetown	-	Quarter size and penny size hail reported in Georgetown.
August 2015	Hail	Georgetown	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	no account filed

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
South Georgetown	1.1 miles	41
Marlboro	1.1 miles	41
East Boxford	2.4 miles	41
Kings Forest	2.6 miles	41
Rooty Plain	2.6 miles	41
Leightons Corner	2.9 miles	41
South Groveland	3.0 miles	40
Groveland	3.2 miles	47

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614239. 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.