Wakefield Junction, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1989

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 64 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Dr. S. O. Richardson Houselisted 1989 · 0.1 miles away
• Michael Sweetser Houselisted 1989 · 0.1 miles away
• House at 5 Bennett Streetlisted 1989 · 0.3 miles away
• Deacon Daniel Green Houselisted 1989 · 0.3 miles away
• House at 52 Oak Streetlisted 1989 · 0.4 miles away
• Massachusetts State Armorylisted 1989 · 0.4 miles away
• Lynnwoodlisted 1989 · 0.4 miles away
• House at 12 West Water Streetlisted 1989 · 0.4 miles away
• Building at 38-48 Richardson Avenuelisted 1989 · 0.4 miles away
• Buildings at 35-37 Richardson Avenuelisted 1989 · 0.5 miles away
• Center Depotlisted 1989 · 0.5 miles away
• South Reading Academylisted 1989 · 0.5 miles away

Every listing in Middlesex County

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 Boston quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1971 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
• 1971 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880; History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Wakefield Junction between 2003 and 2020, burning about 133 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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.

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:

• Wakefield
• Montrose
• Greenwood
• Linden
• Melrose
• Melrose Highlands

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,149 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wakefield Junction between 1898 and 1975: 456 Animalia, 408 Plantae, 250 Fungi, 17 Bacteria, 8 Unrecorded, 5 Chromista, 5 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B Seymour, A B. Proper 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
	Trientalis borealis Raf.	1900	A. P. Chute
	Aglaospora profusa (Fr.) De Not.	1898	Collector unspecified
	Bulbostylis capillaris var. crebra Fernald	1898	C. H. Knowlton	Boston.
	Cantharellus infundibuliformis (Scop.) Fr.	1898	not recorded	Melrose.
	Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.	1898	Francis P Daniels	Cambridge
	Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber	1898	Francis P Daniels	Arlington Heights
	Cordyceps capitata (Holmsk.) Link	1898	Conant, [?] F.	Middlesex Fells
	Ctenidium malacodes Mitt.	1898	not recorded
	Cucurbitaria elongata (Fr.) Grev.	1898	J. G. Hall
	Acer carpinifolium Siebold & Zucc.	1900	A. K. Harrison	Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
	Acer palmatum var. dissectum (Thunb.) Miq.	1900	A. K. Harrison	Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
	Aphanochaete repens A.Braun	1900	F. S. Collins	Middlesex Fells, Wright's Pond, on Oedogonium, etc.

All 1,149 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Wakefield Junction: 5 producers, 4 past producers, 3 plants, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Silica, 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 612839. 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.