BlockBayard, Delaware
30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19945. It stands on Agricultural Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Frankford quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 30 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.
- 1918 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bayard between 2010 and 2017, burning about 2 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 | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | CYGNET LANE |
| 9 March 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | WELLS FIRE |
| 20 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Delaware Forest Service | CEDAR CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bayard in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Lightning | Bayard | $1,000 | Lightning struck and caused minor damage to the bell tower of the Zion Methodist Church on County Route 382 in Baltimore Hundred. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Bayard | - | Report of Video showing Quarter Sized Hail in Bayard, DE covering the ground. Time given in report. |
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bayard | - | Tree downed into a house. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bayard | - | A large tree was downed on Peppers Corner Rd. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bayard | - | A tree was downed onto wires on Central Ave in Frankford. Time estimated from radar. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Manor Estates | 1.1 miles | 30 | |
| Oak Acres | 1.1 miles | 27 | |
| Spring Brook Forest | 1.2 miles | 25 | |
| Indian Cove | 1.3 miles | 27 | |
| Beachwood | 1.4 miles | 25 | |
| Magnolia Shores | 1.8 miles | 27 | |
| Johnson | 1.8 miles | 25 | |
| Fenwick West | 2.0 miles | 27 |
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 Bayard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4874328 | 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 216025. 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.