Blanchard, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Bridgeville-Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19950. The Survey maps it on the Hickman quadrangle.

Blanchard within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1918 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Blanchard between 2005 and 2019, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
6 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
4 April 2012	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
14 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
12 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	CONCORD FIRE
12 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	CROP FIRE
11 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex 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
Woodenhawk	2.8 miles	19
Scotts Corner	2.9 miles	19
Adams Crossroads	3.1 miles	19
Greenwood	3.4 miles	19
Hickory Ridge	3.6 miles	19
Greenwood Gardens	3.8 miles	19
Deer Creek	3.8 miles	19
Saint Johnstown	4.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216042. 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.