Anchor also serves these smaller Massachusetts North Shore-area communities from our Rochester, NH branch. Jump to your town, or call (603) 785-0118 for service anywhere in the region.
Amesbury
Essex County · 01913
Amesbury is a former mill city on the north bank of the Merrimack River near its mouth, drained by the Powwow River, which drops approximately 90 feet through the town center and once powered its mills. State surveillance placed Amesbury at moderate EEE risk during the 2024 season, when EEE-positive mosquitoes were identified in the town, and it is a member of the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District, which authorizes residential adulticiding here.
Request service in Amesbury →Beverly
Essex County · 01915, 01965
Beverly is a North Shore city whose harbor sits at the mouth of the Danvers River, where the Bass River empties, and it includes the Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing neighborhoods. It is a member of the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control District, which lists Beverly for virus-only adulticiding, and lies in Essex County, where Massachusetts DPH confirmed a 2025 human West Nile virus case in a resident.
Request service in Beverly →Essex
Essex County · 01929
Essex is a small shipbuilding village wrapped around the Essex River and the edge of the Great Marsh, a roughly 25,500-acre system that is the largest salt marsh north of Long Island, and it is famed for its clam flats and fried-clam shacks. Its tidal salt marsh generates biting salt-marsh mosquitoes and greenhead flies; the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control District provides greenhead-fly control to Essex.
Request service in Essex →Georgetown
Essex County · 01833
Georgetown is an inland, wooded Essex County town centered on Pentucket Pond and Baldpate Hill and abutting the Georgetown-Rowley State Forest. It also hosts the headquarters of the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District at 118R Tenney Street; its woodlands and state-forest edges are prime habitat for deer ticks that carry Lyme disease, which Massachusetts DPH tracks statewide.
Request service in Georgetown →Gloucester
Essex County · 01930
Gloucester occupies most of Cape Ann and is one of America's oldest fishing ports, with a working commercial waterfront and, on its western side, salt marsh at the southern end of the Great Marsh. The Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control District provides greenhead-fly control to Gloucester, and the town's marshes breed salt-marsh mosquitoes.
Request service in Gloucester →Groveland
Essex County · 01834
Groveland is a small, semi-rural residential town along the south bank of the Merrimack River, with the Parker River and the Crane Pond Wildlife Management Area within its bounds. State surveillance placed Groveland at moderate EEE risk during the 2024 season, and the town is a member of the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District.
Request service in Groveland →Hamilton
Essex County · 01982, 01936
Hamilton is a rural-suburban Essex County town known for its equestrian heritage and the Myopia Hunt Club, sitting within the Ipswich River watershed. Its horse farms, woodlands and pastures create ideal habitat for deer ticks that spread Lyme disease, which Massachusetts DPH tracks statewide, and the town is a member of the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District.
Request service in Hamilton →Ipswich
Essex County · 01938
Ipswich sits within the Great Marsh, a roughly 25,500-acre system that is the largest salt marsh north of Long Island, and is home to Crane Beach and the tidal Ipswich River. Its extensive salt marsh breeds aggressive salt-marsh mosquitoes and greenhead flies, and the town is a member of the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control District, which conducts marsh water-management work in Ipswich.
Request service in Ipswich →Manchester-by-the-Sea
Essex County · 01944
Manchester-by-the-Sea is a residential seaside town at the southern end of Cape Ann, wrapped around Manchester Harbor and known for Singing Beach. Its wooded conservation areas, including Cedar Swamp and Coolidge Reservation, provide habitat for deer ticks that spread Lyme disease, and the town is a member of the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District.
Request service in Manchester-by-the-Sea →Merrimac
Essex County · 01860
Merrimac is a small, largely residential former mill town on the north bank of the Merrimack River, sharing Lake Attitash with Amesbury and drained by Cobbler Brook and the Back River. It was listed at moderate EEE risk during the 2024 season and is a member of the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control District, which schedules residential adulticiding in Merrimac.
Request service in Merrimac →Newbury
Essex County · 01951, 01922
Newbury is a coastal town encompassing part of Plum Island, the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge and the villages of Byfield and Old Town, with much of its land in the Great Marsh. Its salt marshes are spawning grounds for biting greenhead flies, reported around the Parker River refuge each summer, and salt-marsh mosquitoes; the town is served by the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control District.
Request service in Newbury →Newburyport
Essex County · 01950
Newburyport is a historic seaport city at the mouth of the Merrimack River, once a clipper-ship building center and now known for its preserved brick waterfront and captains' mansions. Its older, dense housing stock and Great Marsh surroundings drive pest pressure; state surveillance placed Newburyport at moderate EEE risk in the 2024 season, and it is a member of the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control District.
Request service in Newburyport →Rowley
Essex County · 01969
Rowley is a small Essex County town on the tidal Rowley River, bordering the Great Marsh with productive clam flats and abutting the Georgetown-Rowley State Forest. Its salt marsh breeds salt-marsh mosquitoes and greenhead flies while its wooded uplands harbor deer ticks; the town is a member of the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District.
Request service in Rowley →Salem
Essex County · 01970
Salem is a dense, historic seaport city on Salem Harbor in Essex County, where much of the housing stock dates to the 1960s and 1970s or earlier and is multi-family. That aging, tightly packed housing supports year-round rodent pressure, and Salem lies in Essex County, where Massachusetts DPH confirmed the season's second 2025 human West Nile virus case in a woman in her 60s exposed in the county.
Request service in Salem →Salisbury
Essex County · 01952
Salisbury is Massachusetts's northernmost coastal town, a summer beach destination where the Merrimack River meets the Atlantic and Beach Road crosses the Great Marsh to five miles of ocean beach. Its salt marshes are notorious for biting greenhead flies each summer at Salisbury Beach; the town was at moderate EEE risk in 2024 and receives residential adulticiding from the Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control District.
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