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

Linebrook, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Ipswich town. It lies in ZIP code area 01938. It stands on Hunsley Hills. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle.

Linebrook 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 Linebrook, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Linebrook, 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

68 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Linebrook between 2015 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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	21
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	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
13 September 2020	Smoking	1.2 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	TOPSFIELD
28 August 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	IPSWICH
25 August 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	IPSWICH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,207 shown

Museums hold 3,207 specimens collected within 10 miles of Linebrook between 1800 and 1975: 1,425 Plantae, 1,063 Animalia, 615 Fungi, 42 Chromista, 40 Unrecorded, 12 Bacteria, 10 Protozoa. 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
Rhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta (Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel.	1800	R. B. Mackintosh	Peabody
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
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
Iva frutescens L.	1840	Oakes	ad Ipswich
Potentilla anserina L.	1840	Wolle, J.	Ipswich
Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.	1840	Oakes	Ipswich
Dasya C.Agardh, 1824	1842	Collector unknown	Little River near Old Town, 6 miles from the sea

All 3,207 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Linebrook: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, 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
Harriman Mine	Sulfur	Past Producer
Goodhue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ipswich Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Miles River Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
R W Drinkwater	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
R W Drinkwater Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Rowley Ready Mix Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Topseal Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

1 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Linebrook in 1 storm report between 2018 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Linebrook	$3,000	At 5:53 PM EST, a tree and wires were down on Leslie Road in Ipswich, and on Lymick Road in Ipswich.

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
Pinefield	1.5 miles	41
Rooty Plain	2.0 miles	41
Kent Corner	2.0 miles	41
Kings Forest	2.8 miles	41
East Boxford	2.8 miles	41
Leightons Corner	3.0 miles	41
Topsfield	3.1 miles	41
Marlboro	3.5 miles	41

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.

Wikidata item Q122588908

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 614268. 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.