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Little Nahant, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Nahant town. It lies in ZIP code area 01908. It stands on Black Rock. The Survey maps it on the Lynn quadrangle.

Little Nahant within Essex County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Little Nahant, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Little Nahant, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

43 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

42 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Little Nahant between 2003 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 August 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSAUGUS
27 August 2017Recreation and ceremony10 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control16TH HOLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 10,007 shown

Museums hold 10,007 specimens collected within 10 miles of Little Nahant between 1800 and 1975: 4,753 Plantae, 2,798 Animalia, 993 Chromista, 778 Fungi, 386 Unrecorded, 286 Bacteria, 13 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A B. Proper, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Hervey 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
A photograph of the species Rhodocollybia prolixa, not of this specimenRhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta (Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel.1800R. B. MackintoshPeabody
Erysiphaceae1803A. B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Hamamelis L., not of this specimenHamamelis L.1816Boott, J.Andover Turnpike [=Northern Expressway?], 6 miles from Boston.
A photograph of the species Amaranthus cannabinus, not of this specimenAmaranthus cannabinus (L.) Sauer1822not recorded
A photograph of the species Carex rosea, not of this specimenCarex rosea Willd.1833W. Boott
A photograph of the species Carex echinata, not of this specimenCarex echinata subsp. echinata1834Collector unspecifiedChelsea. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Desmarestia viridis, not of this specimenDesmarestia viridis (O.F.Müll.) J.V.Lamour.1841C. E. PeaseMarblehead
A photograph of the species Polysiphonia urceolata, not of this specimenPolysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville1841F. S. CollinsRevere Beach, Revere, MA
A photograph of the species Carex caryophyllea, not of this specimenCarex caryophyllea Latourr.1847C. DeweySalem
A photograph of the species Carex muhlenbergii, not of this specimenCarex muhlenbergii Kunth ex Boott1847F. M. B. Boott
A photograph of the species Trichophorum planifolium, not of this specimenTrichophorum planifolium (Spreng.) Palla1847W. BoottMedford
A photograph of the species Cladophora rupestris, not of this specimenCladophora rupestris (L.) Kütz.1848H. W. W. BaileyLittle Nahant, MA

All 10,007 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Little Nahant: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 plants, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Mercury. 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
Lynn Eastern Smelt & Refin CorpGold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, MercuryPlant
Malden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Saugus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Swampscott PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Swampscott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Swampscott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Trimount Bituminous Products CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

2 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Little Nahant in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 1 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2018Thunderstorm WindLittle Nahant$1,000At 10:07 AM EST, a tree was reported down at Castle Road and Phillips Road in Nahant.
March 2008FloodLittle Nahant-Castle Road in Nahant was flooded as well as Canal Street in Salem.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Nahant1.0 miles43
Lynn2.3 miles43
East Lynn2.3 miles43
Swampscott2.5 miles43
Phillips Point2.8 miles43
Raddin Station2.9 miles43
West Lynn3.3 miles43
Wyoma3.7 miles43

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 Q122594564The 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 613369. 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.