Bestfield, Delaware

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 11 records

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

• Collison Houselisted 1993 · 0.3 miles away
• Woman's Club of Newportlisted 1993 · 0.3 miles away
• Joseph Killgore Houselisted 1993 · 0.3 miles away
• Killgore Halllisted 1993 · 0.4 miles away
• Armstrong Lodge No. 26, A. F. & A. M.listed 1993 · 0.4 miles away
• Newport National Banklisted 1993 · 0.4 miles away
• Lewis Weldin Houselisted 1993 · 0.4 miles away
• Newport Railroad Stationlisted 1994 · 0.5 miles away
• Galloway-Walker Houselisted 1993 · 0.5 miles away
• Joseph Tatnall Houselisted 1993 · 0.6 miles away
• Woodstocklisted 1973 · 0.8 miles away

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Bestfield 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Albertson
• Albertson Park
• Albion
• Arundel
• Avalon
• Belford Manor

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Bestfield: 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.

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bestfield in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in New Castle County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 217173. 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.