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Tyngsboro, Massachusetts

50 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Tyngsborough town. It lies in ZIP code area 01879. It stands on Bridge Meadow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Nashua South quadrangle. 12,380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

Tyngsboro within Middlesex County

Population over time

2 figures

Tyngsboro grew from 11,292 to 12,380 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
201011,292
202012,380+1,088 (+10%)

Then and now

1886 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tyngsboro, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Tyngsboro, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

50 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.

In the 1908 county history

13,007 words on this township

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 chapter on Tyngsborough Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Tyngsborough Town - 13,007 words.

Fires nearby

58 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Tyngsboro between 2001 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2002Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 August 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 431 shown

Museums hold 431 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tyngsboro between 1898 and 1975: 308 Plantae, 62 Protozoa, 28 Fungi, 26 Animalia, 4 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Newton, A. F. Newton, M. K. Thayer, A. J. S. 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
A photograph of the species Exosporium pusillum, not of this specimenExosporium pusillum P.Karst.1898King C. A.Stony Brook
A photograph of the species Galium tinctorium, not of this specimenGalium tinctorium (L.) Scop.1899not recorded
Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.1900Thaxter, R.Stony Brook
A photograph of the species Boletus frostii, not of this specimenBoletus frostii J.L.Russell1900A. W. Flint
A photograph of the species Cenchrus spinifex, not of this specimenCenchrus spinifex Cav.1900C. H. KnowltonN Chelmsford.
A photograph of the species Pholiota carbonaria, not of this specimenPholiota carbonaria (Fr.) Singer1900H. WebsterGroton.
A photograph of the species Tricholoma acris, not of this specimenTricholoma acris Peck1900not recorded
A photograph of the species Tricholoma columbetta, not of this specimenTricholoma columbetta (Fr.) P.Kumm.1900Mrs. Page
A photograph of the species Alabama argillacea, not of this specimenAlabama argillacea (Hübner, 1823)1930not recordedLowell
A photograph of the species Alopecurus aequalis, not of this specimenAlopecurus aequalis Sobol.1930M. L. Fernald; C. A. Weatherby
A photograph of the species Salix bebbiana, not of this specimenSalix bebbiana Sarg.1930J. Straughan
unnamed1950A. R. Hodgdon; J. Straughan1 1/4 miles south of Pelham Village

All 431 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 25 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Tyngsboro: 15 past producers, 9 producers, 1 plant. 10 still produce. 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
Chelmsford MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
West Chelmsford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fletcher Westford QuarryGraniteProducer
Forest Road QuarryGranitePast Producer
Guilmette Bros GraniteGranitePast ProducerGranite
H E Fletcher CoGranitePast ProducerGranite
Le Masurier Granite Quarry IncGranitePast ProducerGranite
Le Masurier Quarry and MillGraniteProducer
North Chelmsford QuarryGraniteProducer
Oak Hill QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Storms nearby

6 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Tyngsboro in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
August 2019LightningTyngsboro$5,000In Tyngsboro, the First Parish Meeting House on Middlesex Road had a steeple struck and damaged by lightning.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindTyngsboro$4,000In Tyngsboro, a tree was down on a house on Frost Road.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindTyngsboro$3,000A tree on Pawtucket Boulevard was downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindTyngsboro$500In Tyngsboro, a tree was down on Lakeview Avenue. Report relayed by amateur radio.
July 2009HailTyngsboro-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTyngsboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Middlesex 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
Norris Corner1.5 miles50
Flints Corner1.6 miles50
Swan Corner1.8 miles50
Willowdale2.2 miles50
Hayward Corner2.4 miles50
Camp Kiwanis2.9 miles50
Dunstable3.1 miles50
Frederick Corner3.3 miles50

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 TyngsboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2577621The 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 611510. 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.