Fairfield Crest, Delaware

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 12 of 16 shown

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

• Blue Hen Farmlisted 1983 · 0.2 miles away
• Bank of Newark Buildinglisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
• Granite Mansionlisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away
• Stuart Randall & Pricilla Kellogg Carswell Houselisted 2011 · 0.7 miles away
• Bell Farmhouselisted 1983 · 0.7 miles away
• Curtis Paper Mill Workers' Houseslisted 1982 · 0.8 miles away
• Belmont Halllisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
• Baily Houselisted 1982 · 0.8 miles away
• Building at 140 W. Main Streetlisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away
• Thomas Phillips Mill Complexlisted 1983 · 0.9 miles away
• Exchange Buildinglisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away
• Deer Park Hotellisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away

Every listing in New Castle County

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.

• 1898 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1917 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Newark West quadrangle1:24000, 6 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 Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1992 USGS Newark West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield Crest between 2003 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Amaranth
• Bristle Knoll
• Covered Bridge Farms
• Fairfield
• McClellandville
• Mechanicsville

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fairfield Crest: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in New Castle County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 217553. 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.