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

Haverhill, Massachusetts

47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Haverhill City. It lies in ZIP code area 01830. It stands on Little River. The Survey maps it on the Haverhill quadrangle. 67,787 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Haverhill within Essex County

Population over time

2 figures

Haverhill grew from 60,879 to 67,787 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	60,879
2020	67,787	+6,908 (+11%)

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 Haverhill, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Haverhill, 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

84 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Haverhill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 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
Debris and open burning	17
Recreation and ceremony	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	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
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HAVERHILL
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	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LAWERANCE
8 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	GROVELAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,725 shown

Museums hold 1,725 specimens collected within 10 miles of Haverhill between 1800 and 1975: 981 Plantae, 585 Animalia, 147 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 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
Cyathus striatus Willd.	1853	not recorded	Andover, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Isopterygiopsis pulchella (Hedw.) Z.Iwats.	1853	T. P. James

All 1,725 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 18 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Haverhill: 15 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Groveland Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Trimount Bituminous Prdts Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Center Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
City of Haverhill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
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
Heath Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Henry D Lay Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

23 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Haverhill in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 lightning, 2 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 2005	Lightning	Haverhill	$75,000	no account filed
April 2007	Flood	Haverhill	$45,000	Flooding affected several homes in Danvers, and closed a portion of Bridge Street in Salem.\|Minor to moderate flooding affected the larger mainstem rivers in the Merrimack basin. The Merrimack River at Lowell crested at 58.1 feet at 7 pm on the 17th (flood stage is 52 feet) which is the fifth highest flood on record. In Haverhill, it crested at 17.6 feet at 230 am on the 18th (flood stage is 15 feet) while in Lawrence, a crest of 29 feet was reported at 9 am on the 18th (flood stage is 20 feet). The Spicket River at Methuen crested at 9 feet at 145 pm on the 18th (flood stage is 8 feet). The Concord River at Lowell crested at 8.4 feet at 1 am on the 19th (flood stage is 8 feet).
February 2008	Flood	Haverhill	$30,000	In Haverhill, Winter Street and North Avenue were flooded. In addition, vehicles were stuck in flood waters on Parsonage Hill Road. Spotters reported that the road was begining to wash away. Canal Street in Salem was flooded with three to four feet of water on the roadway. In Groveland, Balch Avenue was flooded near its intersection with Route 113.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	$25,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds in Haverhill and Groveland.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds brought down a large branch and wires on West Broadway Street.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	$10,000	Trees and wires were downed on Shawmut Avenue in Haverhill.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	$10,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	$7,000	Trees and wires on Corliss Hill Road and South Williams Street were downed by thunderstorm winds. Also, a tree was downed onto a car at the intersection of Broadway and Lake Streets. This tree blocked Broadway, causing traffic to be rerouted.
June 2018	Lightning	Haverhill	$5,000	At 6:36 PM EST lightning struck a house on Solitaire Drive in Haverhill.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	$5,000	A tree on Liberty Street was downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2005	Lightning	Haverhill	$5,000	no account filed
August 2005	Lightning	Haverhill	$5,000	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Haverhill	-	In Haverhill, quarter size hail was reported at 520 PM EDT (420 PM EST). It had begun as nickel size hail fifteen minutes earlier.
March 2020	Hail	Haverhill	-	Dime size hail was reported in Haverhill at 802 PM EST.
July 2020	Hail	Haverhill	-	In Haverhill, dime size hail was reported.
July 2010	Hail	Haverhill	-	Ping pong ball sized hail was reported in Haverhill.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	-	Trees down on several roads.
June 2007	Hail	Haverhill	-	Penny size hail in Haverhill.
September 2002	Heavy Rain	Haverhill	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Haverhill	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	-	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
Highlands	0.4 miles	47
Bradford	0.5 miles	47
Highlandville	1.2 miles	47
Riverside	1.7 miles	47
Ward Hill	1.9 miles	47
Rosemont	2.6 miles	47
Groveland	2.7 miles	47
South Groveland	3.0 miles	40

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.

Wikipedia article on Haverhill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54132	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 612607. 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.