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

Highlands, 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.

Highlands 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 Highlands, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Highlands, 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

81 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Highlands between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 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 burning16
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGROVELAND
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHAVERHILL
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHAVERHILL
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHAVERHILL
8 August 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGROVELAND
5 August 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGROVELAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,690 shown

Museums hold 1,690 specimens collected within 10 miles of Highlands between 1800 and 1975: 980 Plantae, 552 Animalia, 146 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.1900John W. Huntington
Specimen of Plagiotheciella latebricola (Schimp.) M.Fleisch.Plagiotheciella latebricola (Schimp.) M.Fleisch.1900John W. Huntington
A photograph of the species Rhodobryum roseum, not of this specimenRhodobryum roseum (Hedw.) Limpr.1800J. W. HuntingtonAmesbury
A photograph of the species Lupinus L., not of this specimenLupinus L.1816Boott, F.M.B.Mystic Pond, 6 miles from Boston.
A photograph of the species Viola labradorica, not of this specimenViola labradorica Schrank1816not recordedAndover Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston U.S.A.
A photograph of the species Diphyscium foliosum, not of this specimenDiphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr1822ALCOTT
A photograph of the species Arcyria oerstedii, not of this specimenArcyria oerstedii Rostaf., 18751826F. A. Gilbert
A photograph of the species Dichelyma capillaceum, not of this specimenDichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin1833J. W. Huntington
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1833J.S. AppletonWest Newbury
A photograph of the species Cyathus striatus, not of this specimenCyathus striatus Willd.1853not recordedAndover, Mass. [Massachusetts]
A photograph of the species Isopterygiopsis pulchella, not of this specimenIsopterygiopsis pulchella (Hedw.) Z.Iwats.1853T. P. James
A photograph of the species Leskea polycarpa, not of this specimenLeskea polycarpa Hedw.1853T. P. James

All 1,690 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 Highlands: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Groveland PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Trimount Bituminous Prdts CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Center Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
City of HaverhillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
East Broadway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Haverhill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Haverhill Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Haverhill Sand Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Heath PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Henry D Lay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Haverhill0.4 miles47
Bradford0.8 miles47
Highlandville0.9 miles47
Riverside1.9 miles47
Ward Hill2.2 miles47
Rosemont2.4 miles47
Groveland2.8 miles47
South Groveland3.3 miles40

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 606299. 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.