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

Ward Hill, Massachusetts

47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Haverhill City. It lies in ZIP code area 01835. It stands on Ward Hill. The Survey maps it on the Haverhill quadrangle.

Ward Hill within Essex County

Then and now

1888 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ward Hill, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Ward Hill, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

47 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

75 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Ward Hill between 2015 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	16
Recreation and ceremony	13
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	GROVELAND
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HAVERHILL
24 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	NORTH ANDOVER
9 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HAVERHILL
8 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LAWERANCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,234 shown

Museums hold 1,234 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ward Hill between 1816 and 1975: 570 Plantae, 527 Animalia, 125 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Brown, A S Gaunt, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Lupinus L.	1816	Boott, F.M.B.	Mystic Pond, 6 miles from Boston.
Viola labradorica Schrank	1816	not recorded	Andover Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston U.S.A.
Diphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr	1822	ALCOTT
Arcyria oerstedii Rostaf., 1875	1826	F. A. Gilbert
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1833	J.S. Appleton	West Newbury
Cyathus striatus Willd.	1853	not recorded	Andover, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Dichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin	1853	T. P. James
Isopterygiopsis pulchella (Hedw.) Z.Iwats.	1853	T. P. James
Leskea polycarpa Hedw.	1853	T. P. James
Vulpia octoflora var. glauca (Nutt.) Fernald	1858	J. Blake
Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1859	Weinland, David Friedrich	Essex County, Massachusetts
Anguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)	1859	Weinland, David Friedrich	Essex County, Massachusetts

All 1,234 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Ward Hill: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Groveland Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Trimount Bituminous Prdts Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Center Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Haverhill Sand Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Haverhill Sand Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mavrofrides Brothers	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Peter H Arekalian Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pines Speedway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
The Pines Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Torromeo Trucking Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

1 since 2021

The National Weather Service names Ward Hill in 1 storm report between 2021 and 2021: 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2021	Flash Flood	Ward Hill	$20,000	In Methuen between 420 PM EDT and 427 PM EDT, police reported that Pilgrim Circle was flooded up to the headlights of vehicles. Also, fire officials reported a car stuck in flood waters on Independence Drive.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bradford	1.7 miles	47
Haverhill	1.9 miles	47
Highlands	2.2 miles	47
Highlandville	2.8 miles	47
Riverside	2.9 miles	47
Graceland Park	3.2 miles	47
Maple Park	3.2 miles	47
Rosemont	3.3 miles	47

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617840. 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.