Centennial Village, Delaware

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the New Castle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19702. It stands on Leatherems Run. The Survey maps it on the Newark East quadrangle.

Centennial Village within New Castle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 32 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.

1904 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1919 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Newark East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Newark East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Centennial Village between 2004 and 2005, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
23 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Centennial Village: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Delaware Brick Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Delaware Brick Co. Pit and Mill	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Constructors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Freeway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Freeway Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Route 40 Farm	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Whittington Sand & Gravel Pit & Mil	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Whittington Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in New Castle 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
Princeton Wood II	0.0 miles	32
Rivers End	0.2 miles	32
Christiana Landing	0.7 miles	32
Bear	0.7 miles	32
Lakecroft II	0.8 miles	32
Taylortown	0.8 miles	32
Fairwinds	0.9 miles	32
Glendale	1.0 miles	32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 217543. 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.