Quincy Neck, Massachusetts

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.

1885 1984

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

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Quincy Point Fire Stationlisted 1994 · 0.5 miles away
• Fore River Club Houselisted 1989 · 0.8 miles away
• Brown-Hodgkinson Houselisted 1989 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1885 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1920 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1971 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1971 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings

History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Quincy City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Quincy Neck between 2015 and 2020, burning about 162 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:

• Old Boat Point
• Quincy Point
• South Commons
• East Braintree
• Five Corners
• Germantown

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 8,899 specimens collected within 10 miles of Quincy Neck between 1810 and 1975: 4,743 Plantae, 2,383 Animalia, 1,317 Fungi, 321 Chromista, 69 Protozoa, 52 Unrecorded, 14 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A C Gibson, A Loveridge 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
	Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
	Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi	1900	Frad G. Floyd	Western boundary Stony Brook Reservation
	Thalictrum L.	1810	Boott, J.W.	Near Boston.
	Anemone L.	1815	Boott, J.	Andover Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
	Ericaceae	1815	Boott	Boston, U.S.A.
	Limonium vulgare Mill.	1815	not recorded	On Cragies Road [=near Cragies Bridge], 1 1/2 miles from Boston.
	Mollugo verticillata L.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Boston.
	Persicaria (L.) Mill.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Craigie's Road, 2 miles from Boston.
	Ranunculus L.	1815	not recorded	Thicket at South Boston.
	Cistaceae	1816	Boott, J.W.	Boston.
	Dianthus armeria L.	1816	Boott, J.	Boston.
	Fallopia Adans.	1816	Boott, J.W.	Andover Turnpike, near Boston. N. America.

All 8,899 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Quincy Neck: 10 producers, 9 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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 Norfolk 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 617888. 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.