Belvidere, Delaware

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Lower Christiana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19804. It stands on Chestnut Run. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington South quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Belvidere within New Castle County

On record in Belvidere

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 10 records

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

Joseph Killgore Houselisted 1993 · 0.6 miles away
Killgore Halllisted 1993 · 0.6 miles away
Lewis Weldin Houselisted 1993 · 0.6 miles away
Collison Houselisted 1993 · 0.7 miles away
Newport National Banklisted 1993 · 0.7 miles away
Armstrong Lodge No. 26, A. F. & A. M.listed 1993 · 0.7 miles away
Woman's Club of Newportlisted 1993 · 0.7 miles away
Newport Railroad Stationlisted 1994 · 0.7 miles away
Galloway-Walker Houselisted 1993 · 0.7 miles away
Joseph Tatnall Houselisted 1993 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

1904 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1919 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Wilmington South 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 South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Wilmington South quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Wilmington South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

28 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Belvidere between 2003 and 2005, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	24
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
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
21 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 April 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Belvidere: 4 past producers, 3 plants, 1 producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Chromium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.	Chromium	Past Producer
New Castle Plant C-E Minerals	Aluminum	Plant
Wilmington Plant Dupont	Titanium	Plant
Wilmington Plantozark-Mahoning	Fluorine-Fluorite	Plant
Constructors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belvidere in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2012	Lightning	Belvidere	4 hurt	A family of four people were struck and injured by lightning outside of the Cranston Hall Apartments in Prices Corner (Christina Hundred). They were sitting under a tree when they were indirectly struck. The 30-year-old male, 28-year-old female, 7-year-old boy and 1-year-old boy were transported to Christiana Hospital, where they were admitted and treated for minor injuries.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Belvidere	$50,000	Flash flooding was reported across portions of Wilmington. Both streets and buildings were flooded. People were stranded.
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Belvidere	-	Power lines downed on Centerville Rd.

Every storm 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
Cedar Heights	0.1 miles	33
Masonicville	0.1 miles	33
Westview	0.1 miles	33
Gordy Estates	0.3 miles	33
Tuxedo Park	0.4 miles	33
Bestfield	0.4 miles	33
Liberty	0.5 miles	33
Landenberg Junction	0.6 miles	33

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 Belvidere	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15198342	The 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 213633. 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.