Briar Hook, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seaford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19973. It stands on Freidel Prong. The Survey maps it on the Seaford West quadrangle.

Briar Hook within Sussex County

On record in Briar Hook

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 1 record

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

Maston Houselisted 1975 · 0.7 miles away

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.

1915 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Seaford West 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
1992 USGS Seaford West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Briar Hook between 2004 and 2019, burning about 164 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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	4.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
23 September 2005	Natural	28 acres	Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge	GUARD
9 July 2004	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge	WOODLAND CHURCH RD.
4 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
30 July 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
29 July 2007	Natural	2.2 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
21 July 2007	Natural	5.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
22 June 2005	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
Richard Heights	1.2 miles	19
Ricland Heights	1.3 miles	19
Devonshire Woods	1.8 miles	19
Atlanta Estates	1.9 miles	19
Atlanta	2.0 miles	19
Clarksons Crossroads	2.2 miles	19
Heritage Village	2.3 miles	19
Bossard Property	2.6 miles	19

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 Q122562261

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 215445. 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.