North Pepperell, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1988

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• District School No. 4, North & Prescott Streets, North Pepperellfederal building survey, 4 photographs

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.

• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1931 USGS Groton quadrangle1:48000
• 1935 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Pepperell quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Pepperell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Pepperell 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
• 1965 USGS Pepperell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Pepperell quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:25000

History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880; History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, published 1880; History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1890 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 40 fires within 5 miles of North Pepperell between 1993 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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:

• Hovey Corner
• Babbatasset Village
• Camp Immaculate Heart
• Camp Massapoag
• Dunstable
• East Groton

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 164 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Pepperell between 1900 and 1975: 62 Protozoa, 47 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 24 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. K. Moore, C. A. Weatherby; L. B. Smith; I. D. Clement; E. Rouleau; K. G. Eldredge, C. A. Weatherby; L. B. Smith;I. D. Clement;E. Rouleau;K. G. Eldredge 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
	Pholiota carbonaria (Fr.) Singer	1900	H. Webster	Groton.
	unnamed	1926	F.A. Gilbert
	Anavitrinella pampinaria (Guenée, 1857)	1926	not recorded	Lunenburg
	Arcyria cinerea (Bull.) Pers., 1801	1926	Collector unspecified
	Arcyria denudata (L.) Wettst., 1886	1926	F.A. Gilbert
	Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.	1930	M. L. Fernald; C. A. Weatherby
	Hemaris thysbe Fabricius, 1775	1930	not recorded	Lunenburg
	Coccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)	1950	Collector(s): James Lee Peters	Groton
	Cladara atroliturata (Walker, 1862)	1974	not recorded	Dunstable
	Crematogaster Lund, 1831	1974	E. V. Gregg	Wayside park, 6 mi E of Los Fresnos
	Hybomitra cincta (Fabricius, 1794)	1974	not recorded	Dunstable, Westford St
	Agapostemon virescens (Fabricius, 1775)	1975	Paul S. Miliotis	Dunstable

All 164 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of North Pepperell: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Pepperell in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 Middlesex 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 611149. 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.