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Blackiston, Delaware

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Kenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19938. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Blackiston within Kent County

On record in Blackiston

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 30 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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Blackiston between 2008 and 2016, burning about 10 acres in total. None 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/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
26 April 2016Smoking10 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSAWMILL
3 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackiston in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 6 heavy rain, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBlackiston$100,000A severe thunderstorm caused wind damage between Smyrna and Blackiston Crossroads mainly in Kenton Hundred. There were nine calls for fallen trees and downed wires. In Smyrna shingles were torn from one home and a downed tree damaged a porch. Between Clayton and Blackiston, two mobile homes were damaged after trees fell on them. Another mobile home was moved off its foundation. A barn was destroyed by the thunderstorm winds and a camper within it was damaged. One hundred pound propane tanks were toppled. Several homes in the Plantation Crossing development west of Clayton suffered minor structural damage.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBlackiston-A tree was downed onto wires near Longridge Rd. Time estimated from radar.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBlackiston-Large tree and power lines down. Time estimated from radar.
August 2017Heavy RainBlackiston-Just over 2 inches of rain fell.
August 2017Heavy RainBlackiston-Almost three inches of rain fell.
July 2017FloodBlackiston-Flooding reported on Blackiston church road at Millington road.
July 2013Flash FloodBlackiston-Thunderstorms with very heavy rain caused small stream, poor drainage and field flash flooding along the northern tier of Kent County affecting Duck Creek and Kenton Hundreds and Smyrna and Clayton the hardest. Doppler Radar storm total estimates reached 3 to 5 inches in this area.
December 2008Heavy RainBlackiston-Event precipitation totals included 3.31 inches in Kitts Hummock, 2.85 inches in Dover and 2.51 inches in Viola.
April 2007FloodBlackiston-The heavy rain caused flooding in and around Dover. Flooding occurred along the Saint Jones River, Silver Lake and Puncheon Run within Dover. Flood waters encroached about four to five homes in the Pinewood Acres development between Dover and Cheswold. The higher than normal tides and the heavy rain caused flooding of roadways in Woodland and Bowers Beach as well as Kitts Hummock. Precipitation totals included 4.10 inches in Sandtown, 4.04 inches in Dover, and 3.89 inches at the Dover Air Force Base.
October 2006Heavy RainBlackiston-no account filed
November 2006Heavy RainBlackiston-no account filed
July 2003Heavy RainBlackiston-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBlackiston-no account filed
April 1999HailBlackiston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Twin Eagle Farms0.9 miles30
Kentbourne II1.6 miles30
Plantation Crossing1.8 miles30
Underwood Corner2.1 miles29
Holletts Corners2.1 miles30
Wind Song Farms2.5 miles30
Forest Gate2.8 miles29
Reynard Crossing3.3 miles29

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 BlackistonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14655154The 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 216040. 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.