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Bayberry Dunes, Delaware

31 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 19930. It lies near Cottonpatch Hill. The Survey maps it on the Bethany Beach quadrangle.

Bayberry Dunes within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bayberry Dunes between 2002 and 2015, burning about 17 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/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
26 May 2015Smoking16 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSAVAGES FIRE
1 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Gulls Nest0.3 miles31
Sea Del Estates0.4 miles31
Bethany Dunes0.6 miles31
Bethany Village0.8 miles31
Tower Shores0.9 miles31
The Reservation1.0 miles31
Ocean Village1.0 miles31
Bayside Hamlet1.1 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215371. 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.