Wyoma, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1892 1997

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 3 records

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

• Lydia Pinkham HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 2012 · 0.8 miles away
• Pine Grove Cemeterylisted 2014 · 0.6 miles away
• English High Schoollisted 1986 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1892 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1944 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1956 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1970 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000
• 1970 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000

History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1888 names this settlement in its chapter on Lynn City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Wyoma between 2003 and 2020, burning about 271 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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:

• East Lynn
• Lynn
• Merrimac Terrace
• Needham Corner
• Peabody
• South Lynnfield

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 10,987 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wyoma between 1800 and 1975: 5,399 Plantae, 3,001 Animalia, 1,006 Chromista, 858 Fungi, 415 Unrecorded, 293 Bacteria, 15 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A B. Proper, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Hervey 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
	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
	Potentilla argentea L.	1830	A. P. Bhute
	Carex rosea Willd.	1833	W. Boott
	Carex echinata subsp. echinata	1834	Collector unspecified	Chelsea. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	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
	Carex caryophyllea Latourr.	1847	C. Dewey	Salem
	Carex muhlenbergii Kunth ex Boott	1847	F. M. B. Boott

All 10,987 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Wyoma: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 3 plants, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gold. 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 eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617383. 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.