Bullseye, Delaware

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19966. It stands on Warwick Gut. The Survey maps it on the Frankford quadrangle.

Bullseye within Sussex County

On record in Bullseye

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.

Johnson Schoollisted 1979 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

1918 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bullseye between 2002 and 2012, burning about 12 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
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 July 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 June 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
13 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 April 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
5 April 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	7.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
7 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 March 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 March 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bullseye: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sussex Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working 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
Gull Point	0.8 miles	30
Warwick Park	0.8 miles	30
Warwick	0.9 miles	30
Ferry Landing	1.1 miles	30
Riverdale	1.7 miles	30
Harmon	1.9 miles	30
Indiantown Farms	2.1 miles	30
Israel Haul	2.1 miles	30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216762. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.