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East Side Village, Delaware

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Milton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19968. It stands on Round Pole Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milton quadrangle.

East Side Village within Sussex County

On record in East Side Village

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 22 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

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of East Side Village between 2002 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceGRAVEL FIRE
20 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2003Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 June 2015Other causes1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServicePRETTY FIRE
4 April 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceWOLF FIRE
18 April 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Milton0.5 miles22
Cave Colony0.9 miles22
Vaughn Landing1.1 miles22
Collins and Russell Development1.5 miles22
Smith Landing2.0 miles22
Drawbridge2.9 miles22
Waples Pond Acres3.0 miles22
Cripple Creek3.3 miles27

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 Q122592119The 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 216898. 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.