Clarksons Crossroads, 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 19933. The Survey maps it on the Seaford West quadrangle. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Clarksons Crossroads within Sussex County

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

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Clarksons Crossroads between 2005 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 2 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
23 September 2005	Natural	28 acres	Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge	GUARD
6 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	HRYNKO ROAD
4 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	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
4 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources 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

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
Atlanta	1.4 miles	19
Briar Hook	2.2 miles	19
Cannon	2.2 miles	19
Jacobs Crossroads	2.7 miles	19
Dublin Hill	2.7 miles	19
Richard Heights	2.8 miles	19
Ricland Heights	2.9 miles	19
Bridgeville	3.2 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 Q5127655

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 216065. 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.