Cripple Creek, Delaware

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1997. 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 Lewes quadrangle.

Cripple Creek within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 27 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 Cape Henlopen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1937 USGS Cape Henlopen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Cape Henlopen quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cripple Creek between 1992 and 2015, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	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
5 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNITIINO4
25 June 2015	Other causes	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	PRETTY FIRE
13 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	FIELD 2 03
11 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT2-9202
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
27 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT II
18 March 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT 29401

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cripple Creek: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite. 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
	Barcroft	Magnesite	Producer	1972
	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
Overbrook Shores	1.0 miles	27
Heronwood	1.0 miles	27
Carsylian Acres	1.2 miles	27
Overbrook	1.3 miles	27
Houston	1.4 miles	27
Pinetown	1.7 miles	31
Drawbridge	1.8 miles	22
East Mill Run	1.8 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215510. 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.