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Cuelen Acres, Delaware

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19945. It stands on McCrays Branch. The Survey maps it on the Frankford quadrangle.

Cuelen Acres within Sussex County

On record in Cuelen Acres

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cuelen Acres between 2012 and 2017, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
19 June 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceBEACH FIRE
5 April 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
20 February 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresDelaware Forest ServiceCEDAR CREEK
19 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreDelaware Forest ServiceSPICER

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 Cuelen Acres: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Sussex Sand and Gravel Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

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
Omar1.0 miles30
Frankford1.0 miles30
Prince George Acres1.5 miles30
Dagsboro2.2 miles30
Thatchers Landing2.3 miles30
Helms Landing2.3 miles30
Buck Hill Landing2.4 miles30
Holiday Estates2.5 miles20

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 Q122544666The 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 215341. 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.