Pleasant Street School

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Street School between 2015 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 448 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasant Street School between 1899 and 1975: 267 Animalia, 81 Plantae, 62 Protozoa, 33 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Gibson, A. F. Newton, A. F. Newton, M. K. Thayer 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
	Oryzopsis asperifolia Michx.	1899	J M Greenman
	Pholiota carbonaria (Fr.) Singer	1900	H. Webster	Groton.
	unnamed	1926	F.A. Gilbert
	Adoxophyes furcatana (Walker, 1863)	1926	not recorded	Lancaster
	Anavitrinella pampinaria (Guenée, 1857)	1926	not recorded	Lunenburg
	Arcyria cinerea (Bull.) Pers., 1801	1926	Collector unspecified
	Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.	1930	M. L. Fernald; C. A. Weatherby
	Cistothorus stellaris (J.F.Naumann, 1823)	1930	Collector(s): James Lee Peters	Harvard
	Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1930	Collector(s): James Lee Peters	Harvard
	Epitheca cynosura (Say, 1840)	1930	Davis, E. M.	MA, Middlesex Co., Shirley
	Hemaris thysbe Fabricius, 1775	1930	not recorded	Lunenburg
	Lanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 1898	1930	Collector(s): James Lee Peters	Harvard

All 448 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Street School: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kyanite. 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 Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ayer, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Middlesex County

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

The whole case file for this property - 2,912 words, 16 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 86000094, 16 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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.