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Newburyport, Massachusetts

47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Newburyport City. It lies in ZIP code area 01950. It stands on Back River. The Survey maps it on the Newburyport West quadrangle. 18,289 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

Newburyport within Essex County

Population over time

2 figures

Newburyport grew from 17,416 to 18,289 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201017,416
202018,289+873 (+5%)

Then and now

1888 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Newburyport, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Newburyport, 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Hennessey House, 2 Summer Street, Newburyport, Essex County, MA
Hennessey House, 2 Summer Street, Newburyport, Essex County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Stonecutting Shop, 2 Summer Street, Newburyport, Essex County, MA
Stonecutting Shop, 2 Summer Street, Newburyport, Essex County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

80 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Newburyport between 2007 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony8
Fireworks7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreParker River National Wildlife RefugeSALT PANNES
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlAMESBURY
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlAMESBURY
1 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSALISBURY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,252 shown

Museums hold 2,252 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newburyport between 1800 and 1975: 1,401 Plantae, 562 Animalia, 189 Fungi, 88 Chromista, 6 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A A Eaton, A Brown, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.1900John W. Huntington
Specimen of Plagiotheciella latebricola (Schimp.) M.Fleisch.Plagiotheciella latebricola (Schimp.) M.Fleisch.1900John W. Huntington
A photograph of the species Rhodobryum roseum, not of this specimenRhodobryum roseum (Hedw.) Limpr.1800J. W. HuntingtonAmesbury
A photograph of the species Dichelyma capillaceum, not of this specimenDichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin1833J. W. Huntington
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1833J.S. AppletonWest Newbury
A photograph of the species Glyceria obtusa, not of this specimenGlyceria obtusa (Muhl.) Trin.1838W Oakes
A photograph of the species Clethra alnifolia, not of this specimenClethra alnifolia L.1840OakesHerbariumRowley
A photograph of the species Euphorbia polygonifolia, not of this specimenEuphorbia polygonifolia L.1840Wolle, J.Ipswich
A photograph of the species Iva frutescens, not of this specimenIva frutescens L.1840Oakesad Ipswich
A photograph of the species Potentilla anserina, not of this specimenPotentilla anserina L.1840Wolle, J.Ipswich
A photograph of the species Sisymbrium officinale, not of this specimenSisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.1840OakesIpswich
A photograph of the species Dasya C.Agardh, not of this specimenDasya C.Agardh, 18241842Collector unknownLittle River near Old Town, 6 miles from the sea

All 2,252 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Newburyport: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
Chipman MineLead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Newburyport Pb-A?^IctLead, SilverPast Producer
Amesbury PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maurice Concrete Products CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

13 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Newburyport in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindNewburyport$10,000Trees and large limbs on Roosevelt Place and Forrester and Merrimac Streets were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNewburyport$5,000The Weatherflow reporting station at Plum Island recorded a wind gust of 69 mph. Wires were downed onto Sunset Drive in Newburyport from these thunderstorm winds.
July 2020LightningNewburyport$3,000In Newburyport, a house on High Street was hit by lightning. There was smoke coming out of the electrical box in the basement.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNewburyport$2,000At 5:43 PM EST two trees were down on High Street near Newburyport High School.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNewburyport$1,000AT 148 PM EST, a tree was down on wires on Lime Street in Newburyport.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNewburyport$800In Salisbury, a tree and wires were down on a car near Elm Street (Route 110).
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNewburyport$500In Newburport, due to thunderstorm winds, wires were down across a span of three houses on Harrison Street.
June 2021HailNewburyport-In Newburyport, a CoCoRaHS observer reported half dollar size hail.
July 2014HailNewburyport-Dime sized hail was reported in Newburyport.
August 2014HailNewburyport-no account filed
October 1998Heavy RainNewburyport-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindNewburyport-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindNewburyport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Essex County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Essex Journal, and New-Hampshire Packet1775 to 1776

What the paper printed

1,997 words

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 1 issue spread across its run from 1776 to 1776, 1,997 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

IssuePaper Length
1776-07-19The Essex Journal, and New-Hampshire Packet1,997 words

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
Rings Island0.7 miles44
Joppa1.1 miles44
Upper Green1.6 miles44
Salisbury2.2 miles44
Knights Crossing2.7 miles47
Salisbury Point2.7 miles47
Plumbush2.8 miles44
Browns Point3.1 miles44

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.

Wikipedia article on NewburyportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54134The 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 614293. 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.