Open water accounts for about 33% of the surrounding area.
- Developed land: 10.2%
- Woodland: 21.2%
- Wetlands: 24.6%
- Open water: 33.1%
- Other cover: 11.0%
Railroad crossing 053757E on PILOTS XING in AYER, Massachusetts
The federal record lists a private crossing on PILOTS XING in AYER, Massachusetts. The reported railroad is BERKSHIRE & EASTERN RAILWAY.
Overview
Crossing053757E
PILOTS XING
AYER, MIDDLESEX County, Massachusetts
BERKSHIRE & EASTERN RAILWAY
Source retrieved Source details
- Road traffic
- Not reported vehicles / dayThe reported road count year is 1970. About traffic counts and years
- Reported trains
- 6 / dayThese reported movements are not arrival times.
Location
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- Source latitude
- 42.566906
- Source longitude
- -71.51524
Traffic
- Road traffic
- Not reported vehicles / day
- Road count year
- 1970
- Reported train total
- 6 / day
- Daytime trains
- 3 / day
- Nighttime trains
- 3 / day
- Switching trains
- 0 / day
- Passenger trains
- 0 / day
- School bus route
- No
- School-bus passes
- Not reported / school day
- Maximum rail speed
- 25 mph
- Road speed limit
- Not reported mph
The daily train total combines reported daytime, nighttime and switching movements. These reported movements are not arrival times. How reported train totals work. A school bus that crosses and returns counts as two passes on a normal school day.
Equipment
- Gate arms
- 0
- Flashing-light pairs
- 0
- Crossbuck assemblies
- 0
- Stop signs
- 0
How warning equipment is recorded
- Main tracks
- 2
- Quiet-zone source value
- No
All equipment counts are reported. Zero is shown only when the source reports zero.
Open the federal crossing recordIncidents
No incident report was matched to this crossing in the available records from 2016 through July 2026. Earlier or unreported incidents may not be included.
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Project documents
No reviewed document names this crossing
The reviewed sources do not name this crossing. Other projects may exist.
Surroundings
The surrounding landscape
Nearby land cover
The 2025 estimates cover roughly 10 hectares around each crossing.
Population and climate nearby
- Modeled population in this map cell
- 128 · 2025
- Regional population density
- 85 people/km² · 2020
- Regional surface elevation
- 142 m
- Average annual air temperature
- 9 °C
- Average annual rain & snow
- 1,184 mm/year
Regional sample 5 km from the reported crossing location. Climate averages cover 1979–2020.
What these figures describe
Population in the map cell comes from a 2025 WorldPop model, grouped into a hexagon containing the reported crossing coordinate. It is not a count of people who use the crossing. Unavailable estimates remain unknown.
Regional values use the nearest sample at roughly 5 km scale. Elevation dates from 2011–2015 and population density from 2020. They do not describe exact conditions at the crossing.
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Compare land cover within 250 metres of this crossing with the area up to one kilometre away.
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Nearby records
These records are within 5 km of the reported location. Distances are straight-line estimates.