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

West Peabody, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Peabody City. It lies in ZIP code area 01960. It stands on Waldens Hill. The Survey maps it on the Salem quadrangle.

West Peabody within Essex County

Then and now

1888 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Peabody, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of West Peabody, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

130 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of West Peabody between 2003 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	40
Smoking	22
Debris and open burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Fireworks	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BEVERLY
28 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SAUGUS
21 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 10,419 shown

Museums hold 10,419 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Peabody between 1800 and 1975: 4,499 Plantae, 3,521 Animalia, 984 Fungi, 802 Chromista, 337 Unrecorded, 261 Bacteria, 15 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A B. Proper, A E Preble, 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
Corylus americana Walter	1900	E. F. Williams
Populus grandidentata Michx.	1900	E. F. Williams
Rhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta (Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel.	1800	R. B. Mackintosh	Peabody
Erysiphaceae	1803	A. B. Seymour
Hamamelis L.	1816	Boott, J.	Andover Turnpike [=Northern Expressway?], 6 miles from Boston.
Brasenia schreberi J.F.Gmel.	1821	not recorded	Pleasant Pond, Wenham, Mass.
Amaranthus cannabinus (L.) Sauer	1822	not recorded
Diphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr	1822	ALCOTT
Arcyria oerstedii Rostaf., 1875	1826	F. A. Gilbert
Potentilla argentea L.	1830	A. P. Bhute
Desmarestia viridis (O.F.Müll.) J.V.Lamour.	1841	C. E. Pease	Marblehead
Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville	1841	F. S. Collins	Revere Beach, Revere, MA

All 10,419 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of West Peabody: 6 past producers, 4 plants, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Iron. 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
Ferro Ceramic Grinding--Wakefield	Silica	Plant
Hale Engineering Co--Danvers, Ma.	Tungsten	Plant
Saugus Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Thiokol Ventron Div--Danvers, Ma.	Thorium	Plant
Thiokol Ventron Div--Beverly, Ma.	Zirconium	Plant
Ventron Corp--Beverly, Ma.	Zirconium	Past Producer
Camillieri Corp Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Donald Innis Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kay Locke Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Danvers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

13 since 1993

The National Weather Service names West Peabody in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 lightning, 2 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
July 2010	Flash Flood	West Peabody	$500,000	In Lynn, Alley and Commercial streets experienced significant flooding. A car was stranded on Chatham Street. In Peabody, a car was stranded near Foster and Spring Streets. Shaws Lane and Oak Streets were flooded.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	West Peabody	$25,000	Trees and wires were downed throughout west Peabody, including on Lowell Street, Newbridge Road, and Pocahontas Drive.
August 2018	Flash Flood	West Peabody	$15,000	At 10:33 AM EST, Quail Road in South Peabody was closed due to flooding. At 10:52 AM EST, Lynnfield Street was closed due to flooding. At 11:07 AM EST, a car was reported trapped in floodwaters on Lynnfield Street. At 11:14 AM a car was trapped in floodwaters on Lake Street near U.S. Route 1; Lake Street was reported closed soon after. At 11:33 AM EST, a house on Batchelder Avenue was reported to have 4 feet of water in the basement.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	West Peabody	$15,000	A tree and wires were downed onto a pool house on Jackson Avenue by thunderstorm winds. In addition, a tree was downed blocking Winona Street.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	West Peabody	$15,000	Trees and wires were downed on several streets in Lynn and Peabody, including on Greenwood Road in Peabody and on Herschel Street in Lynn. One of the trees on Herschel Street landed on a car.
July 2008	Lightning	West Peabody	$15,000	A house on LeBlanc Street was struck by lightning and caught fire.
August 2008	Lightning	West Peabody	$15,000	A house on Martinick Avenue was struck by lightning and caught fire.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	West Peabody	$5,000	A tree on Emerson Street was downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	West Peabody	$3,000	A tree on Rainbow Road was downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	West Peabody	$500	A tree was downed on Lake Street.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	West Peabody	$500	A small tree on Upham Street was downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 1993	Hail	West Peabody	-	Two trees down in Salem Willows Park. Numerous dime-size hail stones fell at approximately 1845 EST in West Peabody with one or two stones just under the size of a quarter as measured by the son of a NWS meteorologist. Rainfall in Peabody was 1.68 inches.
July 2012	Hail	West Peabody	-	no account filed

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
South Lynnfield	2.1 miles	40
Burleys Corner	2.2 miles	42
Proctor	2.3 miles	42
Tapleyville	2.5 miles	42
South Middleton	2.5 miles	40
Danvers Center	2.5 miles	42
Brigadoon Village	2.9 miles	40
Lynnfield	2.9 miles	40

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.

Wikidata item Q122542861

The 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 614371. 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.