Delmar, Delaware
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. The Survey maps it on the Delmar quadrangle. 2,027 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.
On record in Delmar
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 3 records
Dickerson Potato Houselisted 1990
Highball Signallisted 1973- West Potato Houselisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresDelmar grew from 1,597 to 2,027 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 | 1,597 | |
| 2020 | 2,027 | +430 (+27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 19 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.
- 1901 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1942 USGS Delmar quadrangle1:24000
- 1943 USGS Delmar quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Delmar quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Delmar quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Delmar quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Delmar between 2005 and 2019, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | BANKS FIRE |
| 9 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 3 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 23 June 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Delmar: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elliot Farm Prospect | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Mine Hill Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delmar in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2012 | Lightning | Delmar | $300,000 | A lightning strike and ensuing fire caused extensive damage to a home on Eagle Run Lane in Delmar. No injuries were reported. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delmar | - | County 911 call center reports tree limbs down on East Grove Street in Delmar. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2022 | Heavy Rain | Delmar | - | CoCoRaHS station DE-SS-62 0.1 miles west-southwest of Delmar. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Delmar | - | An inch and a half of rain within 90 minutes from thunderstorms. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Delmar | - | Penny size hail fell in Delmar. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delmar | - | Severe thunderstorms across the southern tier of Sussex County tore down a few trees, tree limbs and wires from Delmar east to Millville. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Delmar | - | no account filed |
| November 2006 | Heavy Rain | Delmar | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Delmar | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Delmar | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delmar | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delmar | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Delmar | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westerlee | 0.6 miles | 19 | |
| Saint George | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Little Acres | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Bacons | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| Records Estates | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Susan Beach Corner | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Smith Hill | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Ralphs | 4.4 miles | 19 |
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 Delmar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q753759 | 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 213878. 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.












