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Belltown, Delaware

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Milton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19958. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle. It stands 26 feet above sea level.

Belltown within Sussex County

On record in Belltown

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 1 record

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

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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Belltown between 1992 and 2016, burning about 67 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning1
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
5 July 1997Arson/incendiarism15 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNITIINO4
13 May 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeFIELD 2 03
11 May 1992Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNIT2-9202
20 April 2016Debris and open burning16 acresDelaware Forest ServiceCOASTAL
11 April 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNIT2-9201
1 April 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNIT II 00
27 March 1995Arson/incendiarism14 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNIT II
25 March 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeFIELD 203

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Belltown: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BarcroftMagnesiteProducer1972
Lewes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belltown in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBelltown-Eight power poles reported down near Beaver Dam Road and Dairy Farm Road. Time estimated from radar.
July 2020Flash FloodBelltown-Cave Neck Road was closed to the east of Milton due to flooding.

Every storm 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
Dutch Acres0.3 miles27
Five Points0.3 miles31
Nassau0.6 miles27
Sand Dunes Village0.7 miles27
Wescoats Corner0.8 miles27
McNichol Place1.0 miles27
Jimtown1.1 miles31
Quakertown1.1 miles27

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 BelltownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4884180The 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 213630. 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.

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.