Middleton Colony, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1888 1985

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 2 records

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

• Deacon Edward Putnam Jr. Houselisted 1990 · 0.3 miles away
• White-Preston Houselisted 1990 · 0.6 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 Salem quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Salem quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1956 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1970 USGS Salem quadrangle1:25000
• 1970 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Salem quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:25000, 3 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 100 fires within 5 miles of Middleton Colony between 2003 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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:

• Beaver Brook (historical)
• Brigadoon Village
• Burleys Corner
• Ferncroft
• Hathorne
• Howe

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 6,839 specimens collected within 10 miles of Middleton Colony between 1800 and 1975: 2,883 Animalia, 2,520 Plantae, 938 Fungi, 208 Unrecorded, 184 Chromista, 96 Bacteria, 10 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A B. Proper, A E Preble, A. A. Eaton 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
	Corylus americana Walter	1900	E. F. Williams
	Populus grandidentata Michx.	1900	E. F. Williams
	Rhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta (Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel.	1800	R. B. Mackintosh	Peabody
	Erysiphaceae	1803	A. B. Seymour
	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
	Glyceria obtusa (Muhl.) Trin.	1838	W Oakes
	Euphorbia polygonifolia L.	1840	Wolle, J.	Ipswich
	Iva frutescens L.	1840	Oakes	ad Ipswich
	Potentilla anserina L.	1840	Wolle, J.	Ipswich

All 6,839 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Middleton Colony: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 2 plants. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Thorium, Tungsten. 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614284. 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.