BlockDagsboro, 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 19939. It stands on Fork Number One Pepper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frankford quadrangle. 870 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 28 feet above sea level.
On record in Dagsboro
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 1 record
Prince George's Chapellisted 1971
Population over time
2 figuresDagsboro grew from 805 to 870 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 805 | |
| 2020 | 870 | +65 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 30 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Dagsboro between 2002 and 2017, burning about 3 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 burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 April 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Delaware Forest Service | CEDAR CREEK |
| 19 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | SPICER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dagsboro: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sussex Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dagsboro in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Lightning | Dagsboro | $800,000 | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagsboro | - | Report of several trees snapped and uprooted along a wooded area of Adams Road with several houses receiving roof damage and a couple sheds collapsed. Time estimated from radar. This was a result of a tornado. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagsboro | - | Photos of several uprooted trees along Piney Neck Road at Marinas at Peppers Creek. Time estimated from radar. This was likely due to a tornado. |
| September 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Dagsboro | - | An EF-0 tornado occurred on the afternoon of September 11, 2023, in the Dagsboro area of Sussex County, Delaware. |The brief tornado began along Adams Road just east of Dagsboro where damage to multiple structures and trees was observed. A shed in a backyard of a home on Adams Road had partial roof and wall collapse, and an additional larger and more structurally sound shed just feet from the first one was shifted off of its foundation, had the door blown off, and had partial roof collapse. Damage to three homes along Adams Road was noted with glass windows blown out and partial siding and shingle loss. Numerous |large softwood trees were uprooted along the wood line behind the homes on Adams Road along and had large branches snapped off of the trunks.||Further south on Adams Road, very close to the intersection of Tingle Lane, minor loss of siding was noted on a home as well as some more tree and limb damage. This is likely where the tornado reached its maximum width of around 370 yards.||The tornado then continued a short distance down Piney Neck Road to near the intersection of Wild Goose Way where another softwood tree was uprooted in the backyard of a home. The tornado likely occluded at this point and lifted as no further damage was found further downstream.||The National Weather Service would like to thank Sussex County Emergency Management Agency, local Skywarn spotter coordinators, and the public for their assistance with this survey. |
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagsboro | - | Power poles downed on Main St. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagsboro | - | Several six-inch diameter limbs were downed near the intersection of US-113 and 9 Foot Rd. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Dagsboro | - | Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flash flooding of roadways and small streams from Dagsboro east along the southern shore of the Indian River Bay. High water was reported on Vines Creek Road, Warren Wingate Lane, Holts Landing Road and Waltersbluff Road. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagsboro | - | A Skywarn spotter measured a wind gust to 60 mph during a severe thunderstorm in Dagsboro Hundred. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dagsboro | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Wildfire | Dagsboro | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Dagsboro | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prince George Acres | 0.8 miles | 30 | |
| Buck Hill Landing | 1.5 miles | 30 | |
| Holiday Estates | 1.6 miles | 20 | |
| Helms Landing | 1.7 miles | 30 | |
| Holiday Acres | 1.9 miles | 20 | |
| Sandy Beach | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Kerseys Evergreen Acres | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Burton Acres | 2.1 miles | 20 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Dagsboro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q755583 | The 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 213855. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.