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

North Wilmington, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Wilmington town. It lies in ZIP code area 01887. It stands on Pine Hill. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington quadrangle.

North Wilmington within Middlesex 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 Wilmington, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of North Wilmington, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

41 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.

In the county-history sources

13,683 words on this township

History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Wilmington Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Mr. Walker's article continues : " In 1790 I had two brothers living in Duxbury who were interested in Navigation ; they owned a sloop of some sixty tons burden, and chartered her for Baltimore. Tiie Captain was from some town on Cape Cod, a middleaged man who seemed to understand his business, and learning that there were cranberries in Wilmington, applied to us to buy the fruit. Having a brother older than myself at home, we gave out word that we would buy cranberries at twenty cents per bushel. The people thought- it rather low, but they gathered and brought them in at that price, until we were obliged to stop buying. And when they were ready to take them on board, we had two four-ox teams fully loaded with cranberries. The vessel went, and made a good voyage of it. And from this single shipment grew the immense trade and culture of cranberries."

Passage source: History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880.

Within a few years the Boston Union Ice Company have utilized Silver Lake by erecting spacious houses for the storage of ice, which enables them to transport annually large quantities to Boston by the Boston and Lowell Railroad.

Passage source: History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Wilmington Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

41 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of North Wilmington between 2015 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
22 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ANDOVR
9 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 May 2020	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 May 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ANDOVER HP
24 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 619 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 619 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Wilmington between 1898 and 1975: 294 Animalia, 261 Plantae, 50 Fungi, 6 Bacteria, 6 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A B. Proper, A. C. Mathieson, A. E. Feldman 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
Trientalis borealis Raf.	1900	A. P. Chute
Cantharellus infundibuliformis (Scop.) Fr.	1898	not recorded	Melrose.
Cordyceps capitata (Holmsk.) Link	1898	Conant, [?] F.	Middlesex Fells
Esox americanus Gmelin, 1789	1898	E. Preble	Maple Meadow Brook near Wilmington, Massachusetts
Lentinus tigrinus (Bull.) Fr.	1898	J. F. Conant	Middlesex Fells.
Oedogonium crispum Wittr. ex Hirn	1898	F. S. Collins	Melrose
Oedogonium rothii (Le Clerk) Pringsh.	1898	F. S. Collins	Melrose
Phegopteris polypodioides Fée	1898	Chester C. Kingman	Reading.
Phormidium uncinatum Gomont ex Gomont	1898	F. S. Collins	Valley St., Medford, MA
Aphanochaete repens A.Braun	1900	F. S. Collins	Middlesex Fells, Wright's Pond, on Oedogonium, etc.
Batrachospermum gelatinosum (L.) DC.	1900	F.S. Collins	Malden
Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1900	E. F. Williams

All 619 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of North Wilmington: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Titanium, Titanium, Metal. 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
Heffron Asphalt Corp	Titanium, Metal	Past Producer
Dynamet Tech--Burlington, Ma.	Titanium	Plant
Heffron Asphalt Co--Wilmington, Ma.	Titanium	Past Producer
Marlborough Plant/Polishing Plates	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
North Wilmington Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Roma Stone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Acme Concrete Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Benevento Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Drinkwater Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Groton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Wilmington in 1 storm report between 2022 and 2022: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2022	Flood	North Wilmington	-	In Wilmington, flooding was reported on the corner of North St. and Middlesex Ave. Relayed by amateur radio.

Every storm recorded in Middlesex 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
Wilmington Junction	1.5 miles	41
Wilmington	1.8 miles	41
Silver Lake	1.8 miles	41
West Village	2.4 miles	40
Burtts Crossing	3.0 miles	41
Fox Hill	3.3 miles	41
South Wilmington	3.7 miles	41
Pattenville	3.8 miles	41

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612221. 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.