Craigs Mill, 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 19973. It stands on Chapel Branch. The Survey maps it on the Seaford West quadrangle.

Craigs Mill 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

10 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Craigs Mill between 2004 and 2019, burning about 116 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 July 2004	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge	WOODLAND CHURCH RD.
30 July 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
22 June 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	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
1 February 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
31 December 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	COKESBURY ROAD
3 November 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources 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
Woodland Station	0.5 miles	19
Branchview	1.5 miles	19
Nanticoke Estates	1.5 miles	20
Old Mill Acres	1.5 miles	19
Hill N Dale	1.6 miles	20
Shuffelt Acres	1.8 miles	19
Bossard Property	1.9 miles	19
Woodland	1.9 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216075. 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.