West Gloucester, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1984

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.

• 1886 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Cape Ann quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 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
• 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
• 1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of West Gloucester between 2015 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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:

• Kettle Cove Village
• Riverview
• Riverview Landing
• Wingaersheek (historical)
• Annisquam
• Dogtown Commons

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Museums hold 5,946 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Gloucester between 1817 and 1975: 2,017 Animalia, 1,937 Plantae, 1,200 Fungi, 346 Chromista, 329 Unrecorded, 95 Protozoa, 22 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A H HIGGINSON, A Perlmutter, 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.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.	1900	Clara E. Cummings
	Coluber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1817	not recorded	Loblolly Cove, Cape Ann
	Brasenia schreberi J.F.Gmel.	1821	not recorded	Pleasant Pond, Wenham, Mass.
	Lecanora tartarea (L.) Ach.	1839	E. Tuckerman	Manchester
	Ochrolechia yasudae Vainio	1839	Tuckerman, E.	[USA] Manchester, Massachusetts.
	Euphorbia polygonifolia L.	1840	Wolle, J.	Ipswich
	Iva frutescens L.	1840	Oakes	ad Ipswich
	Potentilla anserina L.	1840	Wolle, J.	Ipswich
	Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.	1840	Oakes	Ipswich
	Splachnum ampullaceum Hedw.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	Manchester
	Ceramium rubrum C.Agardh	1847	N. Pike	Cape Ann
	Cystoclonium purpurascens (Hudson) Kützing	1848	E. Hodges

All 5,946 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of West Gloucester: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Every working recorded in Essex County

The National Weather Service names West Gloucester in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

Every storm recorded in Essex 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 615466. 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.