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John Greenleaf Whittier House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 480 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1966 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Listed as. Whittier, John Greenleaf, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 86 Friend St., Amesbury
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 66000792 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

74 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of John Greenleaf Whittier House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2

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
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlAMESBURY
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlAMESBURY
1 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSALISBURY
8 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSAILSBURY
5 August 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSAILSBURY
4 July 2016Fireworksunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSAILSBURY

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of John Greenleaf Whittier House: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Robert Dow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Amesbury PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Buzzell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Henry D Lay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maurice Concrete Products CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Newton Pit & Mill Ce Beard IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ralph BuzzellSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ralph L BuzzellSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ralph L Buzzell IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

21 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
Amesbury Friends Meeting House0.2 miles2002
Amesbury and Salisbury Mills Village Historic District0.3 miles1985
Briggs Carriage Company0.6 miles2017
Walker Body Company Factory0.6 miles2007
Macy-Colby House0.7 miles2008
Rocky Hill Meetinghouse and Parsonage1.3 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000792 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.