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Adams Crossroads, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Bridgeville-Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19950. It stands on Double Fork Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hickman quadrangle. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

Adams Crossroads within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

21 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Adams Crossroads between 2005 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest ServiceLINE RD.
22 September 2019Debris and open burning1.1 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.6 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest ServiceHRYNKO ROAD
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Adams Crossroads: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Smithville BankIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sussex County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Woodenhawk0.7 miles19
Scotts Corner2.1 miles19
Blanchard3.1 miles19
Jacobs Crossroads3.8 miles19
Dublin Hill4.0 miles19
Cocked Hat5.2 miles19
Greenwood5.9 miles19
Deer Creek5.9 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Adams CrossroadsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4680336The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216014. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.