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Ellendale, Delaware

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Milford South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19941. The Survey maps it on the Ellendale quadrangle. 487 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Ellendale within Sussex County

On record in Ellendale

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ellendale grew from 381 to 487 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
2010381
2020487+106 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

45 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Ellendale between 2002 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2

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
9 September 2013Smokingunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
9 September 2002Naturalunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2016Smoking1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceFLEATOWN
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 August 2004Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 August 2002Naturalunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellendale in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 heavy rain, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning. 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
September 2007LightningEllendale$5,000A lightning strike and ensuing fire caused a shed fire on a property on Reynolds Pond Road east of Ellendale. Damage was estimated at $5,000.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindEllendale-Reports of on and off wind damage from Route 13 to Route 113. Likely due to tornado. Time estimated via radar.
August 2018Flash FloodEllendale-Locally heavy rain resulted in flash flooding in areas along Route 113 from around Ellendale southward.
July 2017FloodEllendale-Reynolds Pond road from routes 16 to 30 flooded.
July 2017Heavy RainEllendale-Just over four and a half inches of rain fell at this DEOS site.
September 2016Heavy RainEllendale-Four and just under a third of an inch of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainEllendale-Four and a third inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainEllendale-Just under four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainEllendale-Four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainEllendale-Just under four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainEllendale-Over five and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainEllendale-Just over six inches of rain fell.
May 2014HailEllendale-A severe thunderstorm dropped half dollar size hail in Ellendale.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindEllendale-A severe thunderstorm knocked down a couple of trees in and around Ellendale.
July 2002Flash FloodEllendale-no account filed
June 2001Flash FloodEllendale-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEllendale-no account filed
July 2000LightningEllendale-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindEllendale-no account filed
September 1997Funnel CloudEllendale-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
Walkers Acres0.5 miles20
New Market1.4 miles20
Federalsburg1.5 miles20
Tessie-Maringola Estates2.1 miles20
Sussex Woods2.2 miles20
Holly Hill2.3 miles20
Hudson Pond Acres2.6 miles20
Hilltop Acres2.9 miles20

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 EllendaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q521614The 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 213934. 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.

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.