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Prides Crossing, Massachusetts

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Beverly City. It lies in ZIP code area 01965. It stands on Beverly Rocks. The Survey maps it on the Marblehead North quadrangle.

Prides Crossing within Essex County

Then and now

1888 to 1985

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.

Topographic sheet of Prides Crossing, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Prides Crossing, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

40 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

34 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Prides Crossing between 2015 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. None 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 burning10
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
8 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
3 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
5 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 July 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
30 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 6,667 shown

Museums hold 6,667 specimens collected within 10 miles of Prides Crossing between 1800 and 1975: 2,362 Animalia, 2,129 Plantae, 1,273 Fungi, 448 Unrecorded, 312 Chromista, 76 Bacteria, 67 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A H HIGGINSON, A Perlmutter, 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
A photograph of the species Rhodocollybia prolixa, not of this specimenRhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta (Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel.1800R. B. MackintoshPeabody
A photograph of the species Brasenia schreberi, not of this specimenBrasenia schreberi J.F.Gmel.1821not recordedPleasant Pond, Wenham, Mass.
A photograph of the species Lecanora tartarea, not of this specimenLecanora tartarea (L.) Ach.1839E. TuckermanManchester
A photograph of the species Ochrolechia yasudae, not of this specimenOchrolechia yasudae Vainio1839Tuckerman, E.[USA] Manchester, Massachusetts.
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 Desmarestia viridis, not of this specimenDesmarestia viridis (O.F.Müll.) J.V.Lamour.1841C. E. PeaseMarblehead
A photograph of the species Splachnum ampullaceum, not of this specimenSplachnum ampullaceum Hedw.1843A. Gray; W. S. SullivantManchester
A photograph of the species Carex caryophyllea, not of this specimenCarex caryophyllea Latourr.1847C. DeweySalem
A photograph of the species Carex muhlenbergii, not of this specimenCarex muhlenbergii Kunth ex Boott1847F. M. B. Boott

All 6,667 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Prides Crossing: 2 plants, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium, Mercury, Silver, Gold, REE. 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
(Facility) Travers Labs Refinery--Beverly, Ma.Mercury, Silver, Gold, REEPlant
Atwater PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thiokol Ventron Div--Beverly, Ma.ZirconiumPlant
Ventron Corp--Beverly, Ma.ZirconiumPast Producer
Manchester Crushed StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Manchester Sand and Stone Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

10 since 2007

The National Weather Service names Prides Crossing in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2016: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindPrides Crossing1 hurt, $10,000Trees, wires, and limbs on Essex, Gridding, and Pennet Streets were downed by thunderstorm winds. These winds were accompanied by penny size hail. One of the falling tree limbs landed on a person, injuring (direct) them.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindPrides Crossing$40,000Multiple trees around Beverly were downed by thunderstorm winds, including trees on McKay, Balch, and Herrick Streets and one on Cross Lane. Trees downed near Beverly Hospital blocked emergency vehicle access to the hospital. One utility pole also was downed.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindPrides Crossing$25,000A tree and a utility pole on Odell Street were downed by thunderstorm winds. In addition, a large branch was downed onto Pierce Road and a tree was downed onto a house on Elliott Street.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPrides Crossing$15,000Tree limbs and wires on Palmer Street and MacArthur Road were downed by thunderstorm winds. The wires landed on a house, resulting in a fire. The limbs also landed on a house but there was no known damage.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindPrides Crossing$10,000Trees were blown down on wires on Brimbull Avenue.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindPrides Crossing$5,000A tree was downed on Route 128 near exit 17 in Beverly, blocking the breakdown lane.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPrides Crossing$5,000An amateur radio operator measured a 62 mph wind gust on their home weather station. At the same time, a utility pole on Elliot Street was downed by these winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPrides Crossing$4,000Trees on Hale Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPrides Crossing-A tree on Dane Street was partially downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2011HailPrides Crossing-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Beverly Farms0.8 miles40
Beverly Cove1.6 miles40
Centerville1.7 miles40
Montserrat2.2 miles40
West Manchester2.3 miles40
Wenham Neck2.5 miles40
Salem Neck2.9 miles40
Beverly2.9 miles42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614761. 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.