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

Rocky Neck, Massachusetts

27 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 Black Rock. The Survey maps it on the Gloucester quadrangle.

Rocky Neck 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 Rocky Neck, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Rocky Neck, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

27 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

24 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Neck between 2015 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 4,993 shown

Museums hold 4,993 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rocky Neck between 1817 and 1975: 2,066 Animalia, 1,295 Plantae, 1,018 Fungi, 311 Chromista, 192 Unrecorded, 91 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 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
A photograph of the species Acolium tigillare, not of this specimenAcolium tigillare (Ach.) Gray1849s.leg.
A photograph of the species Arthonia E.Acharius, not of this specimenArthonia E.Acharius, 18061849Tuckerman Edward
A photograph of the species Arthonia spectabilis, not of this specimenArthonia spectabilis Flot.1849Edward TuckermanEssex
A photograph of the species Arthothelium spectabile, not of this specimenArthothelium spectabile A.Massal.1849William Oakes
A photograph of the species Cyphelium tigillare, not of this specimenCyphelium tigillare (Ach.) Ach.1849W. OakesEssex
Delesseria alata (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux1859R.H. WardCape Ann.

All 4,993 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 Rocky Neck: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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
Johnson QuarryGranitePast Producer
Rockport Quarries IncGranitePast ProducerGranite
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
Five Pound Island0.6 miles27
East Gloucester0.6 miles27
Gloucester0.7 miles27
Bass Rocks1.3 miles38
Freshwater Cove Village1.7 miles27
Riverdale2.1 miles28
Dogtown Commons2.1 miles28
Riverview2.2 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615330. 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.