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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.

Armstrong within New Castle County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 29 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

4 since 2006

Regional 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 use1
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest ServiceBETHEL WMA
1 November 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
5 October 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
28 January 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Thunderstorm WindArmstrong-A severe thunderstorm knocked down trees and wires in Middletown.
March 2014Thunderstorm WindArmstrong-A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few large tree limbs and caused isolated power outages along Summit Bridge Road in Middletown.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindArmstrong-no account filed
July 2004HailArmstrong-no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Castle 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
Meadowbrook Farms South1.6 miles32
Meadowbrook Farms2.0 miles32
Mount Pleasant2.1 miles32
Middletown2.1 miles29
Jamisons Corner2.3 miles32
Crystal Run Farm2.5 miles32
Greylag2.6 miles29
Evergreen Farms3.1 miles29

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 ArmstrongAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28921358The 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.