Marsh Corner, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1988

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 3 records

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

• Moses Morse Houselisted 1984 · 0.1 miles away
• House at 262-264 Pelham Streetlisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
• Old Town Farmlisted 1984 · 0.9 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.

• 1886 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1918 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:31680, 4 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:25000
• 1966 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:25000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1888 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Marsh Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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:

• Methuen
• Ayers Village
• Graceland Park
• Grosvenor Corner
• Haggetts
• Maple Park

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 875 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marsh Corner between 1816 and 1975: 490 Plantae, 273 Animalia, 102 Fungi, 4 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Gaunt, A. C. Mathieson, A. H. Moore 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
	Lupinus L.	1816	Boott, F.M.B.	Mystic Pond, 6 miles from Boston.
	Viola labradorica Schrank	1816	not recorded	Andover Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston U.S.A.
	Eleocharis robbinsii Oakes	1829	B. D. Greene
	Carex debilis var. rudgei L.H.Bailey	1853	Collector unknown
	Carex rostrata Stokes	1853	W. Boott
	Cyathus striatus Willd.	1853	not recorded	Andover, Mass. [Massachusetts]
	Dichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin	1853	T. P. James
	Isopterygiopsis pulchella (Hedw.) Z.Iwats.	1853	T. P. James
	Leskea polycarpa Hedw.	1853	T. P. James
	Vulpia octoflora var. glauca (Nutt.) Fernald	1858	J. Blake
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1859	Putnam, Frederick Ward	Merrimack River, at Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts
	Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1859	FW Putnam	Merrimac River, at Lawrence

All 875 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Marsh Corner: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Nickel, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marsh Corner in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

Every storm 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 612334. 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.