Cave Colony, Delaware

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Milton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19968. It stands on Round Pole Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milton quadrangle. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Cave Colony within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 22 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 Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1919 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Milton quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Milton quadrangle1:25000
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Milton 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 Milton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Cave Colony between 2002 and 2019, burning about 11 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
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	GRAVEL FIRE
20 August 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
25 June 2015	Other causes	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	PRETTY FIRE
4 April 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
27 April 2012	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
21 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	WOLF FIRE
18 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 March 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware 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
East Side Village	0.9 miles	22
Vaughn Landing	1.1 miles	22
Milton	1.4 miles	22
Smith Landing	2.2 miles	22
Collins and Russell Development	2.4 miles	22
Lazy Lake	2.6 miles	22
Cripple Creek	2.7 miles	27
Harbeson	2.7 miles	22

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 Q5054893

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 216897. 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.