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

Groveland, Massachusetts

47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Groveland town. It lies in ZIP code area 01834. It stands on Mount Perry. The Survey maps it on the Haverhill quadrangle.

Groveland within Essex County

Then and now

1888 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Groveland, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Groveland, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

47 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

72 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Groveland between 2015 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	20
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Fireworks	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
4 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	GROVELAND
25 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HAVERHILL
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
9 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HAVERHILL
8 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	GROVELAND
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 2,142 shown

Museums hold 2,142 specimens collected within 10 miles of Groveland between 1800 and 1975: 1,319 Plantae, 609 Animalia, 188 Fungi, 13 Chromista, 7 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Brown, A S Gaunt, 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
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
Lupinus L.	1816	Boott, F.M.B.	Mystic Pond, 6 miles from Boston.
Viola labradorica Schrank	1816	not recorded	Andover Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston U.S.A.
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
Dasya C.Agardh, 1824	1842	Collector unknown	Little River near Old Town, 6 miles from the sea

All 2,142 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 13 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Groveland: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Georgetown Mine	Iron	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
East Broadway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Haverhill 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
Mavrofrides Brothers	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Peter H Arekalian Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

7 since 2006

The National Weather Service names Groveland in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Groveland	$20,000	In Haverhill at 415 PM EST (315 PM EST), a large tree was down on a 2-story house on Salem Street. Picture was confirmed on Twitter and reported by various media outlets.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	South Groveland	$12,000	At 135 PM EST, a couple of trees were reported down on Washington Street in Boxford. \|A tree was reported down on wires on Spofford Road. A large tree was down, taking down a utility pole, on Sprucewood Circle at Woodcrest Road.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	South Groveland	$5,000	A large, dying oak tree on Lake Shore Road was downed onto a car by thunderstorm winds.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Groveland	$5,000	no account filed
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Groveland	$2,000	At 5:35 PM EST, two trees were down blocking Center Street in Groveland.
July 2017	Flood	South Groveland	-	At 409 PM EST, an amateur radio operator reported street flooding on Route 97 in Groveland. Salem Street was also heavily flooded.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Groveland	-	A large tree branch was downed by thunderstorm winds on Main Street.

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
Riverside	1.0 miles	47
South Groveland	1.6 miles	40
Bradford	2.4 miles	47
Haverhill	2.7 miles	47
Highlands	2.8 miles	47
Georgetown	3.2 miles	41
Highlandville	3.5 miles	47
West Newbury	3.6 miles	47

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612606. 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.