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Cool Spring Manor, Delaware

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Milton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19968. The Survey maps it on the Harbeson quadrangle.

Cool Spring Manor within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cool Spring Manor between 1995 and 2020, burning about 29 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 burning5
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreDelaware Forest ServiceDEEP FIRE
4 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
25 June 2015Other causes1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServicePRETTY FIRE
4 April 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
24 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot 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 Cool Spring Manor: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lewes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Shady Rest Park0.3 miles22
Cool Spring Farms0.5 miles22
Cool Spring0.9 miles31
Lazy Lake1.0 miles22
Andersons Corner1.5 miles22
Harbeson1.6 miles22
Arabian Acres1.9 miles31
White Horse Farm1.9 miles22

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 Q122552902The 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 215532. 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.