Dexter Corners, Delaware

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Middletown-Odessa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19734. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle.

Dexter Corners within New Castle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

1899 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1906 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1920 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000
1931 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Dover quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dexter Corners between 2007 and 2016, burning about 39 acres in total. 1 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
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
23 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
29 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	GOLTS CALDWELL ROAD
26 April 2016	Smoking	10 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SAWMILL
14 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
21 November 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
7 October 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	27 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle 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
Cedar Brae Farm	2.3 miles	30
Forest	2.5 miles	30
Vandyke	2.9 miles	30
Green Spring	2.9 miles	30
Blackbird	3.3 miles	30
Meadow Vista	3.3 miles	29
Alisa Estates	3.4 miles	30
Green Spring Farm	3.4 miles	30

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 Q122594014

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 216079. 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.