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

Maple Park, Massachusetts

47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Methuen City. It lies in ZIP code area 01844. It stands on Scotland Hill. The Survey maps it on the Salem Depot quadrangle.

Maple Park 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 Maple Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Maple Park, 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

70 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Maple Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHAVERHILL
24 September 2020Smokingunder 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 burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlLAWERANCE
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMETHUEN
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 August 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlLAWERANCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,040 shown

Museums hold 1,040 specimens collected within 10 miles of Maple Park between 1816 and 1975: 465 Plantae, 453 Animalia, 112 Fungi, 4 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Brown, A S Gaunt, A. C. Mathieson 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 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 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 Dichelyma capillaceum, not of this specimenDichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin1853T. P. James
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
Vulpia octoflora var. glauca (Nutt.) Fernald1858J. Blake
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1859Putnam, Frederick WardMerrimack River, at Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1859FW PutnamMerrimac River, at Lawrence
A photograph of the species Petromyzon marinus, not of this specimenPetromyzon marinus Linnaeus, 17581859Putnam, Frederick WardMerrimack River, at Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Semotilus corporalis, not of this specimenSemotilus corporalis (Mitchill, 1817)1859FW PutnamLawrence, Merrimac River

All 1,040 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Maple Park: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Torromeo Trucking CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Torromeo Trucking Co., Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Graceland Park0.3 miles47
Tozier Corner0.8 miles47
Grosvenor Corner0.8 miles47
Ayers Village1.3 miles47
Marston Corners1.9 miles38
Ward Hill3.2 miles47
Methuen3.3 miles38
Rosemont3.6 miles47

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612089. 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.