Beech Hill, Delaware

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Piedmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19711. It stands on Wood Duck Run. The Survey maps it on the Kennett Square quadrangle.

Beech Hill within New Castle County

On record in Beech Hill

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 7 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

J. Stinson Farmlisted 1986 · 0.5 miles away
Davis Eastburn Farmlisted 1986 · 0.5 miles away
Robert Graham Houselisted 1997 · 0.6 miles away
J. McDaniel Farmlisted 1986 · 0.6 miles away
William Morgan Farmlisted 1986 · 0.7 miles away
Eastburn-Jeanes Lime Kilns Historic Districtlisted 1977 · 1.0 miles away
Mitchell-Biden Houselisted 2025 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 33 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 Kennett Square quadrangle1:24000, 6 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 Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Kennett Square quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

31 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Beech Hill between 2003 and 2019, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Natural	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
22 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 July 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
23 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Meadowbrook	0.3 miles	33
Wood Ridge	0.5 miles	33
Pleasant Hill	0.7 miles	32
Berkeley Farms	0.7 miles	33
Stirrup Farms	0.7 miles	33
Corner Ketch	0.7 miles	32
North Star	0.9 miles	33
North Star Addition	0.9 miles	33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215979. 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.