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Salisbury, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Salisbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 01952. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newburyport East quadrangle. 5,629 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Salisbury within Essex County

Population over time

2 figures

Salisbury grew from 4,869 to 5,629 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. 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.

YearPeople Change
20104,869
20205,629+760 (+16%)

Then and now

1888 to 1987

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.

Topographic sheet of Salisbury, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Salisbury, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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

66 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Salisbury between 2015 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks7
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2017Fireworksunder 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
1 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSALISBURY
8 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSAILSBURY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,805 shown

Museums hold 1,805 specimens collected within 10 miles of Salisbury between 1800 and 1975: 1,164 Plantae, 487 Animalia, 88 Chromista, 59 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A A Eaton, A. A. Eaton, A. A. Eaton; R. G. Leavitt 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 Laminaria saccharina, not of this specimenLaminaria saccharina (L.) J.V.Lamour.1842N. PikePlum Island
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

All 1,805 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Salisbury: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, 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
Chipman MineLead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Amesbury PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maurice Concrete Products CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

8 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Salisbury in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 storm surge/tide, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2002Storm Surge/TideSalisbury$25,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$15,000Trees on Dock Lane, True Road, and Cushing Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
November 2021FloodSalisbury$5,000In Salisbury, there was a public report via MPING - unspecified location -- of a river/creek overflowing with cropland/yard/basement flooding.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$5,000A tree was downed onto a house on Rabbit Road.
July 2016HailSalisbury-no account filed
July 2011HailSalisbury-no account filed
September 1998HailSalisbury-no account filed
August 1998HailSalisbury-no account filed

Every storm 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
Browns Point1.6 miles44
Rings Island1.7 miles44
Newburyport2.2 miles47
Cushing2.2 miles44
Salisbury Plains2.2 miles47
Salisbury Beach2.3 miles44
Joppa2.5 miles44
Salisbury Point2.7 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.

Wikipedia article on SalisburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7404737The 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 613745. 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.