Beaver Valley, Delaware

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It lies in ZIP code area 19317. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington North quadrangle.

Beaver Valley within New Castle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 35 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.

1901 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1943 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Wilmington North 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 Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Beaver Valley in 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
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
2 March 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	WEBB ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beaver Valley: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
	Fairville Mica Occurrence	Mica	Occurrence

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Concord Hills	1.1 miles	35
Granogue	1.3 miles	35
Brandywine Perry Park	1.3 miles	35
Devonshire	1.6 miles	35
Brandywine Commons	1.6 miles	35
Brandywine	1.7 miles	35
Village of Rocky Run	1.8 miles	35
Chapelcrest	1.9 miles	35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216027. 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.