Fairmount, Delaware
31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lewes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19951. It stands on Wall Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle.
On record in Fairmount
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Indian Mission Churchlisted 1979 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 31 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
- 1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Fairmount between 1995 and 2020, burning about 35 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 11 July 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 June 2012 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 12 June 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 13 May 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 5 April 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 7.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairmount in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | Report of large trees snapped and dime sized hail on Stockley Road in Milton, DE. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | Severe thunderstorms uprooted trees across a road around Fairmount. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollymount | 0.6 miles | 31 | |
| Indian Mission | 0.9 miles | 31 | |
| Hollyville | 1.2 miles | 31 | |
| Danfield Acres | 1.3 miles | 31 | |
| Beaver Dam Acres | 1.6 miles | 31 | |
| Hollyville Acres | 1.6 miles | 31 | |
| Lochwood | 1.6 miles | 31 | |
| Herring Creek Estates | 1.9 miles | 31 |
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 Fairmount | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5430611 | 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 216088. 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.














