Rocky Neck Historic District (Additional Documentation)

The ground this property stands on, 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Neck Historic District (Additional Documentation) between 2015 and 2020, burning about 19 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.

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rocky Neck Historic District (Additional Documentation): 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

• 1886 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
• 1918 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Cape Ann quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:25000

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	ADVENTURE (schooner)	0.3 miles	1989
	Lane, Fitz Henry (formerly known as Fitz Hugh), House	0.4 miles	1970
	East Gloucester Square Historic District	0.4 miles	1996
	Puritan House	0.5 miles	1976
	Front Street Block	0.6 miles	1974
	Gloucester City Hall	0.6 miles	1973