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

Riverview Landing, Massachusetts

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Gloucester City. It lies in ZIP code area 01930. It stands on Ferry Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gloucester OE N quadrangle.

Riverview Landing within Essex County

Then and now

1886 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Riverview Landing, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Riverview Landing, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

28 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

28 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Riverview Landing between 2015 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 July 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGLOUCESTER
18 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGLOUCESTER
3 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,441 shown

Museums hold 5,441 specimens collected within 10 miles of Riverview Landing between 1817 and 1975: 1,867 Animalia, 1,741 Plantae, 1,180 Fungi, 334 Chromista, 206 Unrecorded, 93 Protozoa, 20 Bacteria. 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
Specimen of Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.1900Clara E. Cummings
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 17581817not recordedLoblolly Cove, Cape Ann
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 Splachnum ampullaceum, not of this specimenSplachnum ampullaceum Hedw.1843A. Gray; W. S. SullivantManchester
A photograph of the species Ceramium rubrum, not of this specimenCeramium rubrum C.Agardh1847N. PikeCape Ann
Cystoclonium purpurascens (Hudson) Kützing1848E. Hodges
A photograph of the species Ectocarpus Lyngbye, not of this specimenEctocarpus Lyngbye, 18191848E. Hodges

All 5,441 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Riverview Landing: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Atwater PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Manchester Sand and Stone Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johnson QuarryGranitePast Producer
Rockport Quarries IncGranitePast ProducerGranite
Town of RockportGranitePast ProducerGranite
Town of Rockport QuarryGranitePast Producer
John R MorseSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mc Niff-Dominic PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcniff Co IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morse PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Riverview0.5 miles28
Riverdale0.8 miles28
Riverdale Station1.3 miles28
Dogtown Commons1.4 miles28
West Gloucester1.5 miles27
Gloucester1.6 miles27
Wingaersheek (historical)1.8 miles28
Five Pound Island2.1 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615325. 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.