Quincy, Massachusetts

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The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1989

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 12 of 106 shown

• Adams AcademyNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974
• John Quincy Adams BirthplaceNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• John Adams BirthplaceNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Thomas Crane Public LibraryNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972
• Quincy HomesteadNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
• Josiah Quincy HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
• Josiah Quincy HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1997
• United First Parish Church (Unitarian) of QuincyNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
• Adams Buildinglisted 1983
• Adams National Historic Sitelisted 1966
• Arthur Alden Houselisted 1989
• Randolph Bainbridge Houselisted 1989

Every listing in Norfolk County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 24 shown

• Adams Mansion Flower Garden, 135 Adams Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 15 photographs
• Adams Mansion, 135 Adams Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 38 photographs
• Adams Mansion, Carriagehouse-Stable, 135 Adams Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Adams Mansion, Doghouse, 135 Adams Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Adams Mansion, Stone Library, 135 Adams Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Adams Mansion, Woodshed, 135 Adams Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Colonel Josiah Quincy House, 20 Muirhead Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 14 photographs
• General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, American Revolver Crane, 97 East Howard Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Apprentice School, 97 East Howard Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Dravo Cranes, 97 East Howard Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 12 photographs
• General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Joiner & Sheet Metal Shops, 97 East Howard Street, Quincyfederal building survey, 16 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Norfolk County

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 4 records

• Methodist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1885
• Miles N.of City HallCity Hall, in the atlas of 1891
• Norwich Local High and Public Schools,-_ 3School, in the atlas of 1885
• Vogel, J. H., Granite WorksWorks, in the atlas of 1891

Quincy grew from 92,271 to 101,636 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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 Boston quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1970 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000
• 1970 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 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.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Quincy between 2015 and 2020, burning about 132 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.

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:

• North Commons
• Old Boat Point
• Quincy Center
• Quincy Neck
• Quincy Point
• South Commons

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 11,367 specimens collected within 10 miles of Quincy between 1810 and 1975: 5,427 Plantae, 2,716 Animalia, 2,598 Fungi, 352 Chromista, 192 Protozoa, 52 Unrecorded, 30 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, A C Gibson 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
	Thalictrum L.	1810	Boott, J.W.	Near Boston.
	Anemone L.	1815	Boott, J.	Andover Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
	Corylus L.	1815	not recorded	Cambridge Port, 2 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.
	Populus L.	1815	not recorded	Cambridgeport, 1 mile from Boston.
	Ranunculus L.	1815	not recorded	Thicket at South Boston.
	Salix L.	1815	not recorded	Cambridge, 3 1/2 miles from Boston.
	Arenaria serpyllifolia L.	1816	Boott, J.W.	Concord Turnpike, near Boston.

All 11,367 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Quincy: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quincy in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 flood, 5 flash flood, 3 hail. 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 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 617701. 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.