Bethel, 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 1 record

• Bethel Historic Districtlisted 1975

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.

• 1902 USGS Pittsville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1942 USGS Whaleysville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS Whaleysville quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Whaleysville quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 2005 and 2019, burning about 38 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:

• Gumboro
• Westwoods
• Nentego Manor
• Pepperbox
• Whitesville
• Hickory Hill

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bethel in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216031. 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.

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.