Bethany Beach, 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 2 records

• Dinker-Irvin Cottagelisted 2017
• Indian River Life Saving Service Stationlisted 1976

Bethany Beach fell from 1,060 to 954 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1918 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Bethany Beach quadrangle1:24000
• 1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Bethany Beach quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Bethany Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Bethany Beach quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Bethany Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bethany Beach in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 heavy rain, 7 flash flood, 4 lightning, 4 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.

Every storm recorded in Sussex 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 213638. 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.

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.