South Row, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1988

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 Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1931 USGS Groton quadrangle1:48000
• 1935 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:25000
• 1965 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:25000

An account from the chapter on Townsend town, in the words of 1908.

The county history of 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of South Row between 2015 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 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:

• West Townsend
• Townsend Harbor
• North Shirley
• Old City
• Rogersville (historical)
• Townsend

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Museums hold 151 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Row between 1900 and 1974: 58 Animalia, 35 Protozoa, 33 Plantae, 21 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Gibson, A. K. Moore, B. G. Schubert, C.E. Wood Jr. 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
	Pholiota carbonaria (Fr.) Singer	1900	H. Webster	Groton.
	unnamed	1926	F.A. Gilbert
	Anavitrinella pampinaria (Guenée, 1857)	1926	not recorded	Lunenburg
	Arcyria cinerea (Bull.) Pers., 1801	1926	Collector unspecified
	Arcyria pomiformis (Leers) Rostaf., 1875	1926	Collector unspecified
	Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.	1930	M. L. Fernald; C. A. Weatherby
	Epitheca cynosura (Say, 1840)	1930	Davis, E. M.	MA, Middlesex Co., Shirley
	Hemaris thysbe Fabricius, 1775	1930	not recorded	Lunenburg
	Coccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)	1950	Collector(s): James Lee Peters	Groton
	Salix discolor Muhl.	1950	B. N. Gates	Leominster.
	Salix humilis Marshall	1950	B. N. Gates	Leominster.
	Salix sericea Marshall	1950	B. N. Gates	Bordering Leominster water supply; Fitchburg.

All 151 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of South Row: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Middlesex 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 610792. 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.