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Photograph of Pine Grove Cemetery
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Pine Grove Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

One of 480 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 145 Boston St., Lynn
  • When was it listed? June 2014
  • Category. site
  • National Register reference number. 14000364 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1892 to 1997

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

Topographic sheet covering Pine Grove Cemetery, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Pine Grove Cemetery, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

90 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove Cemetery 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.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony31
Smoking19
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSAUGUS
23 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove Cemetery: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 3 plants, 2 unknowns. 7 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hale Engineering Co--Danvers, Ma.TungstenPlant
Kay Locke Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lynn Eastern Smelt & Refin CorpGold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, MercuryPlant
Saugus DepositIronOccurrence
Malden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Malden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Richardson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Saugus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Swampscott PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Swampscott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

17 surveys

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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Lydia Pinkham House0.6 miles2012
English High School0.9 miles1986
Lynn Common Historic District1.0 miles1992
Lynn Public Library1.0 miles1979
High Rock Tower-High Rock Cottage and Daisy Cottage1.0 miles1979
Lynn Memorial City Hall and Auditorium1.0 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000364 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex CountyAll 480 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.
  • 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.