Armstrong, Delaware
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Middletown-Odessa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19709. The Survey maps it on the Middletown quadrangle. It stands 62 feet above sea level.
On record in Armstrong
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 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Armstrong-Walker Houselisted 1985 · 0.2 miles away
Achmesterlisted 1979 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 29 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.
- 1899 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1920 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000
- 1931 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Middletown 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
- 1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Dover quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Armstrong between 2006 and 2017, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | BETHEL WMA |
| 1 November 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 5 October 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 28 January 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armstrong in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armstrong | - | A severe thunderstorm knocked down trees and wires in Middletown. |
| March 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armstrong | - | A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few large tree limbs and caused isolated power outages along Summit Bridge Road in Middletown. |
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armstrong | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Armstrong | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowbrook Farms South | 1.6 miles | 32 | |
| Meadowbrook Farms | 2.0 miles | 32 | |
| Mount Pleasant | 2.1 miles | 32 | |
| Middletown | 2.1 miles | 29 | |
| Jamisons Corner | 2.3 miles | 32 | |
| Crystal Run Farm | 2.5 miles | 32 | |
| Greylag | 2.6 miles | 29 | |
| Evergreen Farms | 3.1 miles | 29 |
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 Armstrong | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28921358 | 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 216019. 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.
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.












