Bridgeville, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Bridgeville-Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19933. It stands on Bridgeville Branch. The Survey maps it on the Seaford East quadrangle. 2,568 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 41 feet above sea level.

Bridgeville within Sussex County

On record in Bridgeville

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 8 records

Bridgeville Historic Districtlisted 1994
Eratt Houselisted 1983
Old Bridgeville Fire Houselisted 1984
Sudler Houselisted 1974
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 1978
Bridgeville Public Librarylisted 1990
Ricards House-Linden Halllisted 1982
Scott's Storelisted 1983

Population over time

2 figures

Bridgeville grew from 2,048 to 2,568 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	2,048
2020	2,568	+520 (+25%)

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 East 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 East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeville between 2012 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
21 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
18 April 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	7.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	CONRAIL
12 April 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	BLADES
12 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	CROP FIRE
11 April 2020	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	MARSHYHOPE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

41 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeville in 41 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 9 heavy rain, 5 flood, 2 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	$10,000	A severe thunderstorm knocked down ten utility poles on South Main Street in Bridgeville. About three hundred homes and businesses in Bridgeville were without power for eight hours.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	$5,000	Thunderstorms associated with a strong cold front moving across the area during the late evening hours on the 2nd produced wind gusts strong enough to blow out the front windows of a grocery store in Bridgeville.
June 1995	Tornado (F0)	Bridgeville	$1,000	A weak tornado (F0 on the Fujita Scale) briefly touched down in the Clarkson's Crossroads area. An abandoned trailer was knocked from its foundation with half of its roof torn off. A few tree limbs were snapped. The tornado was on the ground for about 100 feet before lifting. No injuries were reported.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Trees down along Seashore Highway. Time estimated from radar.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Wires down on Church Street. Time given in report.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Report of trees down on wires in Bridgeville and a tree down into a house. Time estimated from radar.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Report of train flipped over likely due to the tornado. Time estimated via radar.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Nanticoke River Bridge Deos mesonet measured a 98 MPH gust likely due to mesonet station hit by tornado.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Tree limbs down onto power lines. Approximately 2100 customers without power from the Bridgeville to Seaford to Blades areas. Time estimated from radar.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Wires were reported down in Bridgeville. Time estimated from radar.
June 2022	Hail	Bridgeville	-	Nickel size hail. Time estimated from radar.
April 2021	Hail	Bridgeville	-	Time of report estimated from radar.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Several reports of trees and wires down near Route 18 southeast of Bridgeville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Four utility poles were knocked down along the railroad tracks near Market St. and South Railroad Ave.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	A tree was downed on a roadway.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Two power poles and wires were blown down. Time estimated from radar.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	A tree limb and power lines were downed near Ritchie Ln in Bridgeville. Time estimated from radar.
July 2020	Lightning	Bridgeville	-	A structure fire due to a lightning strike was reported on Amandas Teal Dr.
September 2020	Lightning	Bridgeville	-	A structure fire was reported due to a lightning strike on Sunnyside Rd. Time estimated from radar.
September 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	A spotter estimated 60 to 65 mph winds on the south side of Bridgeville in association with the rear flank downdraft of a supercell thunderstorms. Time estimated from radar.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	Trees were reported down in Bridgeville.
July 2017	Flood	Bridgeville	-	High water was reported on Redden road.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Bridgeville	-	Just over four inches of rain fell at this DEOS site.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Bridgeville	-	Just under four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Bridgeville	-	Just over 5 inches of rain fell with 3 inches in 90 minutes.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Bridgeville	-	Just over 3 inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Bridgeville	-	Just under four a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Bridgeville	-	Just under four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Bridgeville	-	Just over five inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Bridgeville	-	Four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Bridgeville	-	Four and a half inches of rain fell.
March 2010	Flood	Bridgeville	-	The Nanticoke River at Bridgeville was above its 8 foot flood stage from 615 p.m. EDT on the 29th through 315 a.m. EDT on the 30th. It crested at 8.16 feet at 945 p.m. EDT on the 29th. Event precipitation totals included 2.51 inches in Lewes and 2.40 inches in Georgetown.
March 2010	Flood	Bridgeville	-	The heavy rain caused much standing water in yards and fields. Sussex County farmers were estimating that the heavy rain and field flooding would push back their planting schedule by 2 to 3 weeks. The Nanticoke River at Bridgeville was above its 8 foot flood stage from 945 a.m. EST on the 13th through 1122 a.m. EDT on the 14th. It crested at 8.32 feet at 5 a.m. EDT on the 14th. In addition to the river flooding, the onshore wind flow produced minor tidal flooding along Delaware Bay and on the ocean side at the times of high tide from the morning of the 13th into the morning of the 14th. The highest tides occurred with the morning high tide on the 13th. At Breakwater Harbor, the high tide reached 6.88 feet above mean lower low water. Minor tidal flooding starts at 6.0 feet above mean lower low water. Event precipitation totals included 2.95 inches in Lewes, 2.94 inches in Greenwood, 2.69 inches in Delmar and 2.35 inches in Georgetown.
December 2009	Flood	Bridgeville	-	Runoff from the heavy rain produced flooding along sections of the Nanticoke River in western Sussex County. The Nanticoke River near Bridgeville was above its 8 foot flood stage from 407 p.m. EST on the 9th through 1022 a.m. EST on the 10th. It crested at 8.48 feet at 1115 p.m. EST on the 9th. Event precipitation totals included 2.28 inches in Greenwood, 2.26 inches in Delmar, 2.16 inches in Seaford, 2.15 inches in Lewes and 2.04 inches in Georgetown.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	A severe thunderstorm blew a trailer onto U.S. Route 13 in Bridgeville.
June 2006	Flood	Bridgeville	-	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeville	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Bridgeville Manor	0.8 miles	19
Bridgeville North	0.9 miles	19
Cocked Hat	1.7 miles	19
Newton Woods	1.8 miles	19
Dublin Hill	2.7 miles	19
Cannon	3.0 miles	19
Clarksons Crossroads	3.2 miles	19
Deer Creek	3.5 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.

Wikipedia article on Bridgeville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q754373	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 213706. 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.