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park · official boundary

South End South Burying Ground

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 1620 Washington Street.

Place

official layer

An official boundary, promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it. It is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer.

Filed by this archive as
park
Authority
City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department
Within
Boston
Area
5949 square meters
Boundary
held as GeoJSON at /asset/f2be3558420202a7a1445c6bdf630665/south-end-south-burying-ground.geojson — 1020 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of South End South Burying Ground, a park in the record of Boston, Massachusetts, within Boston. The outline is an official boundary, promulgated by City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. It encloses approximately 5949 square meters.
Rendered by the archive, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/a624406db9baf0ab4512b480382c2bf9/south-end-south-burying-ground.svg — 1458 bytes, SHA-256 a624406db9baf0ab… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as /asset/f2be3558420202a7a1445c6bdf630665/south-end-south-burying-ground.geojson (application/geo+json, 1020 bytes, SHA-256 f2be3558420202a7…). The map is simplified for drawing; the boundary is not.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Where is South End South Burying Ground, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

South End South Burying Ground is recorded as a park, within Boston. The archive holds its boundary on the official layer: promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Who drew the boundary of South End South Burying Ground?

City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department promulgated it. A boundary with no promulgating authority is an assertion rather than a fact, and this archive files those separately, as claims.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is South End South Burying Ground?

5949 square meters, computed from the boundary the archive holds and not quoted from elsewhere.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive's map of South End South Burying Ground show?

A static map of the boundary, rendered by the archive on a server and never in a reader's browser, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/a624406db9baf0ab4512b480382c2bf9/south-end-south-burying-ground.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/f2be3558420202a7a1445c6bdf630665/south-end-south-burying-ground.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest a624406db9baf0ab4512b480382c2bf95ff5e2773ebfc4c83045213925369d33.

What does the archive hold for South End South Burying Ground, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of South End South Burying Ground from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 4 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Related records

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:entity:south-end-south-burying-ground
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/place/south-end-south-burying-ground
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/place/south-end-south-burying-ground.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
License
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
349
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's GeoJSON from the City of Boston open-data portalarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizethe source's own name field became the record title; no name was supplied by the archivearchive-ingest 0.1.0
3reprojectthe source is WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); geometry was set to that SRID without alteration of coordinatesarchive-ingest 0.1.0
4externalize-boundaryThe boundary left the inline page graph and became two preserved holdings: the exact coordinates at /asset/f2be3558420202a7a1445c6bdf630665/south-end-south-burying-ground.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/a624406db9baf0ab4512b480382c2bf9/south-end-south-burying-ground.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0