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Belltown Woods, Delaware

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Glasgow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19702. The Survey maps it on the Saint Georges quadrangle.

Belltown Woods within New Castle County

On record in Belltown Woods

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

12 surveys from 32 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

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Belltown Woods between 2005 and 2019, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
11 March 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
27 February 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
1 December 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
19 November 2016Recreation and ceremony30 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest ServiceMUDDY LANE
4 October 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest ServiceRED HILL ROAD ELKTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Belltown Woods: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Chestnut Hill MineIronPast Producer
Iron Hill MineIronPast Producer
Freeway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Freeway Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Route 40 FarmSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whittington Sand & Gravel Pit & MilSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Whittington Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Woodlawn Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Woodlawn Sand & Gravel Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Glasgow Pines0.8 miles32
Caravel Farms1.1 miles32
Keeney1.2 miles32
Glasgow1.3 miles32
Clay Acres1.4 miles32
Porter Square1.5 miles32
Glasgow Court1.5 miles32
Woodside Manor1.5 miles32

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.

Wikidata item Q122558617The 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 215715. 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.