Marlboro, Massachusetts

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.

1888 1997

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Hazen-Kimball-Aldrich Houselisted 1990 · 0.1 miles away

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.

• 1888 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1917 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
• 1919 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Cape Ann quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:25000
• 1966 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Ipswich quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
• 1997 USGS Ipswich quadrangle1:25000

History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1888 names this settlement in its chapter on Georgetown Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Marlboro between 2015 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. None 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• East Boxford
• Georgetown
• South Georgetown
• Kings Forest
• Rooty Plain
• South Groveland

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,806 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marlboro between 1816 and 1975: 1,230 Plantae, 952 Animalia, 558 Fungi, 36 Chromista, 14 Protozoa, 10 Unrecorded, 6 Bacteria. 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.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.	1900	John W. Huntington
	Plagiotheciella latebricola (Schimp.) M.Fleisch.	1900	John W. Huntington
	Viola labradorica Schrank	1816	not recorded	Andover Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston U.S.A.
	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

All 2,806 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Marlboro: 9 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Essex County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614281. 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.