Dutch Neck Crossroads, Delaware

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Smyrna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19977. It stands on Hawkey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Smyrna quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Dutch Neck Crossroads within Kent County

On record in Dutch Neck Crossroads

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

Allee Houselisted 1971

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 32 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
1949 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
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 Smyrna quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dutch Neck Crossroads between 1997 and 1999, burning about 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
20 June 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	ENTRANCE
18 March 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	MISERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent 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 Dutch Neck Crossroads: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Hoskinson Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent 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
Whitehall Crossroads	1.3 miles	32
Nandains Landing	1.7 miles	32
Ravenwood	2.2 miles	32
Taylors Gut Landing	2.9 miles	32
Leipsic	3.1 miles	29
Whitehall Landing	3.2 miles	35
Duck Creek Landing	3.5 miles	32
Burtonwood Village	3.9 miles	32

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 Dutch Neck Crossroads	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5317364	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 216084. 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.