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

North Andover, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in North Andover town. It lies in ZIP code area 01845. It stands on Shawsheen River. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle.

North Andover within Essex County

Then and now

1886 to 1988

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.

Topographic sheet of North Andover, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of North Andover, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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

89 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of North Andover between 2015 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Smoking	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	16
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	NORTH ANDOVER
8 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LAWERANCE
8 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LAWERANCE
8 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LAWERANCE
5 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BOXFORD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,317 shown

Museums hold 1,317 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Andover between 1816 and 1975: 726 Plantae, 452 Animalia, 121 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 5 Bacteria, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Chromista. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Corylus americana Walter	1900	E. F. Williams
Populus grandidentata Michx.	1900	E. F. Williams
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.
Diphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr	1822	ALCOTT
Arcyria oerstedii Rostaf., 1875	1826	F. A. Gilbert
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

All 1,317 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 North Andover: 3 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Wittemore Perlite Plant	Perlite	Plant
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Torromeo Trucking Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Torromeo Trucking Co., Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

8 since 2000

The National Weather Service names North Andover in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	North Andover	$25,000	Trees, limbs, and wires on Second Street, Morris Street, Route 114 Eastbound, and Autumn Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	North Andover	$15,000	Trees and wires on Ashland Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	North Andover	$10,000	Trees and large branches on Osgood Street, Harkaway Street, and Academy Lane were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	North Andover	$10,000	Trees and wires on Beach Avenue were downed onto a house by thunderstorm winds.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	North Andover	$10,000	Trees and wires on Steven and Greene Streets were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2023	Flood	North Andover	-	In North Andover, there were flooded vehicles stuck on Massachusetts Ave under the I-495 overpass. High St in Andover was under several feet of water.
August 2023	Flash Flood	North Andover	-	In North Andover, a senior housing center on Main St was underwater leading to the evacuation of 150 residents.
March 2000	Heavy Rain	North Andover	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
South Lawrence	1.0 miles	38
Stevens Crossing	1.4 miles	40
Lawrence	1.6 miles	38
North Andover Center	1.6 miles	40
Mount Vernon Park	1.8 miles	38
Shawsheen Village	1.9 miles	38
Shawsheen Heights	2.0 miles	38
Marble Ridge Station	2.4 miles	40

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612355. 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.