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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.

Fairmount within Sussex County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

23 since 1995

Regional 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 ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
4 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 July 2004Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 June 2012Smoking1.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
12 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 April 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2012Misuse of fire by a minor7.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Report of large trees snapped and dime sized hail on Stockley Road in Milton, DE. Time estimated from radar.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Severe thunderstorms uprooted trees across a road around Fairmount.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFairmount-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
Hollymount0.6 miles31
Indian Mission0.9 miles31
Hollyville1.2 miles31
Danfield Acres1.3 miles31
Beaver Dam Acres1.6 miles31
Hollyville Acres1.6 miles31
Lochwood1.6 miles31
Herring Creek Estates1.9 miles31

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 FairmountAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5430611The 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.