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Rocks Village, Massachusetts

47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It lies in ZIP code area 01830. It stands on Kimball Hill. The Survey maps it on the Haverhill quadrangle.

Rocks Village within Essex County

Then and now

1888 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rocks Village, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Rocks Village, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

47 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

75 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Rocks Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGROVELAND
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHAVERHILL
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlAMESBURY
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlAMESBURY
15 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Hampshire Division of Forest and Landsnot named
1 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHAVERHILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,817 shown

Museums hold 1,817 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rocks Village between 1800 and 1975: 1,165 Plantae, 524 Animalia, 69 Fungi, 49 Chromista, 5 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A A Eaton, A Brown, 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 Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.1900John W. Huntington
Specimen of Plagiotheciella latebricola (Schimp.) M.Fleisch.Plagiotheciella latebricola (Schimp.) M.Fleisch.1900John W. Huntington
A photograph of the species Rhodobryum roseum, not of this specimenRhodobryum roseum (Hedw.) Limpr.1800J. W. HuntingtonAmesbury
A photograph of the species Dichelyma capillaceum, not of this specimenDichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin1833J. W. Huntington
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1833J.S. AppletonWest Newbury
A photograph of the species Glyceria obtusa, not of this specimenGlyceria obtusa (Muhl.) Trin.1838W Oakes
A photograph of the species Clethra alnifolia, not of this specimenClethra alnifolia L.1840OakesHerbariumRowley
A photograph of the species Dasya C.Agardh, not of this specimenDasya C.Agardh, 18241842Collector unknownLittle River near Old Town, 6 miles from the sea
A photograph of the species Dasya baillouviana, not of this specimenDasya baillouviana (Gmelin) Mont.1844N. Pikenear Old Town
A photograph of the species Campylium Mitt., not of this specimenCampylium (Sull.) Mitt.1851Marian Ropes Robertsonbetween Boston St. and Devil's Den
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans var. hypomalacum Fernald1857R. Mock
A photograph of the species Genista tinctoria, not of this specimenGenista tinctoria L.1857R. Mock

All 1,817 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 24 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Rocks Village: 20 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Silver. 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
Newburyport Pb-A?^IctLead, SilverPast Producer
Groveland PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Trimount Bituminous Prdts CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Amesbury PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Buzzell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Center Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
City of HaverhillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
East Broadway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Haverhill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Haverhill Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

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
West Newbury0.9 miles47
Merrimac1.4 miles47
Merrimacport1.4 miles47
Curzon Mill3.5 miles47
Groveland3.7 miles47
Riverside4.0 miles47
Highlandville4.3 miles47
Highlands4.4 miles47

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122563616The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 598554. 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.