Cool Spring, Delaware

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Milton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19968. It stands on Martin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle.

Cool Spring within Sussex County

On record in Cool Spring

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.

Cool Spring Presbyterian Churchlisted 1982 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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
1943 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Cool Spring between 1992 and 2017, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Debris and open burning	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
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
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
11 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT2-9202
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
11 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT2-9201
1 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT II 00

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: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lewes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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
Cool Spring Farms	0.5 miles	22
Lazy Lake	0.7 miles	22
Cool Spring Manor	0.9 miles	22
Shady Rest Park	1.2 miles	22
Arabian Acres	1.2 miles	31
Pinetown	1.6 miles	31
Carsylian Acres	1.6 miles	27
Harbeson	2.0 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216071. 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.