Arden, Delaware
44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Brandywine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19810. The Survey maps it on the Marcus Hook quadrangle. 430 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 256 feet above sea level.
On record in Arden
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 3 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Village of Ardenlisted 1973 · 0.1 miles away
Abner Cloud Houselisted 1992 · 0.5 miles away
Ivyside Farmlisted 1982 · 1.0 miles away
Population over time
3 figuresArden fell from 474 to 430 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 474 | |
| 2010 | 439 | -35 (-7%) |
| 2020 | 430 | -9 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
18 surveys from 44 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Chester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1896 USGS Chester quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Chester quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
- 1901 USGS Camden quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Marcus Hook quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Camden quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Marcus Hook quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Marcus Hook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1967 USGS Marcus Hook quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Marcus Hook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Marcus Hook quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Arden between 2003 and 2006, burning about 471 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection | not named |
| 19 December 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 470 acres | New Jersey Forest Fire Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Arden: 2 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium, Pigment, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgemoor Plant Ti | Titanium, Pigment | Plant | 1956 | |
| Phoenix Steel/ Claymont, De. | Iron | Plant |
Storms near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arden in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardentown | 0.2 miles | 44 | |
| Log Run | 0.2 miles | 44 | |
| Ardencroft | 0.4 miles | 44 | |
| Buckingham Heights | 0.6 miles | 44 | |
| Indian Field | 0.6 miles | 44 | |
| Highland Woods | 0.6 miles | 44 | |
| Clair Manor | 0.7 miles | 44 | |
| Windy Bush | 0.7 miles | 44 |
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 Arden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q638836 | The 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 213569. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.

















