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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.

Delmar within Sussex County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Delmar 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,597
20202,027+430 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires near this place

25 since 2005

Regional 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
5 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2012Natural1.0 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest ServiceBANKS FIRE
9 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
3 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
23 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use12 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named

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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elliot Farm ProspectIronProspect
Mine Hill MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012LightningDelmar$300,000A lightning strike and ensuing fire caused extensive damage to a home on Eagle Run Lane in Delmar. No injuries were reported.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindDelmar-County 911 call center reports tree limbs down on East Grove Street in Delmar. Time estimated from radar.
August 2022Heavy RainDelmar-CoCoRaHS station DE-SS-62 0.1 miles west-southwest of Delmar.
July 2016Heavy RainDelmar-An inch and a half of rain within 90 minutes from thunderstorms.
August 2011HailDelmar-Penny size hail fell in Delmar.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDelmar-Severe thunderstorms across the southern tier of Sussex County tore down a few trees, tree limbs and wires from Delmar east to Millville.
July 2007Flash FloodDelmar-no account filed
November 2006Heavy RainDelmar-no account filed
August 2005Funnel CloudDelmar-no account filed
May 2004HailDelmar-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDelmar-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDelmar-no account filed
June 1998HailDelmar-no account filed

Every storm 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
Westerlee0.6 miles19
Saint George3.0 miles19
Little Acres3.1 miles19
Bacons3.6 miles20
Records Estates4.0 miles20
Susan Beach Corner4.1 miles18
Smith Hill4.3 miles19
Ralphs4.4 miles19

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 DelmarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q753759The 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.