Prescott, Gustavus G., House

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Prescott, Gustavus G., House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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 Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,834 specimens collected within 10 miles of Prescott, Gustavus G., House between 1898 and 1975: 797 Animalia, 570 Plantae, 404 Fungi, 27 Protozoa, 17 Bacteria, 11 Chromista, 8 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B Seymour, A B. Proper 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
	Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
	Trientalis borealis Raf.	1900	A. P. Chute
	Aglaospora profusa (Fr.) De Not.	1898	Collector unspecified
	Boletellus russellii (Frost) E.-J.Gilbert	1898	H. Webster
	Boletus peckii Frost	1898	H. Webster	Edge of Reservation
	Boletus speciosus Frost	1898	J. R. Webster
	Bulbostylis capillaris var. crebra Fernald	1898	C. H. Knowlton	Boston.
	Cantharellus cinnabarinus (Schwein.) Schwein.	1898	not recorded	Newton.
	Cantharellus infundibuliformis (Scop.) Fr.	1898	not recorded	Melrose.
	Chimaphila maculata (L.) Pursh	1898	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton
	Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.	1898	Francis P Daniels	Cambridge
	Acanthis flammea flammea (Linnaeus, 1758)	1900	ZAPPEY, W R	ROSLINDALE

All 1,834 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Prescott, Gustavus G., House: 9 plants, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 Somerville, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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 - 1,123 words, 8 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 89001278, 8 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.