Bottom Hills, Delaware

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lewes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19971. It lies near Big Cedar Island. The Survey maps it on the Bethany Beach quadrangle.

Bottom Hills within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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 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

Fires near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bottom Hills between 2002 and 2020, burning about 28 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
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 June 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
26 May 2015	Smoking	16 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SAVAGES FIRE
5 April 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	7.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
6 March 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 November 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	ARROWHEAD FIRE

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
Massey Landing	1.9 miles	31
Indian Harbor Villa	2.0 miles	31
Quillens Point	2.1 miles	31
Newtons Acres	2.2 miles	31
Tower Shores	2.4 miles	31
Steele Acres	2.5 miles	31
Bayside Hamlet	2.5 miles	31
Gulls Nest	2.9 miles	31

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.

Wikidata item Q122556795

The 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 216045. 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.