Farmington, Delaware
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Harrington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19950. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.
On record in Farmington
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 1 record
Tharp Houselisted 1973
Population over time
2 figuresFarmington fell from 110 to 92 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 110 | |
| 2020 | 92 | -18 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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 Harrington quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Farmington between 2012 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 12 April 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | CONCORD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 2 tornado, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Farmington | 4 hurt, $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Lightning | Farmington | $200,000 | Lightning struck a Harrington home in the Farmington area on Staytonsville Road near Wolfs Trail End Drive. The ensuing fire caused about $200,000 in damage. Four fire companies battled the blaze and the residents were evacuated without injury. One firefighter was injured battling the blaze. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Farmington | - | Spotter reported 1 inch hail. Time given in report. |
| July 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Farmington | - | Wind damage was first observed near a residence on Farmington|Road, knocking down and snapping several trees in a narrow swath.|The tornado then continued over railroad tracks and a cornfield, |where a notable convergent pattern was observed. From there, the |tornado proceeded eastward toward the South DuPont Highway, but |not before causing damage to a business where metal roofing was |peeled off. Several snapped trees were also noted on the property.|Subsequently, the tornado crossed Gun and Rod Club Road where |another area of trees were downed, with numerous branches across |the roadway. South of Williamsville Road along Hogtown Road, a |residence was damaged when a tree fell on to the roof. On the |other side of the road, a corn field was present with a notable |divergent pattern observed. This damage, south of the tornado |track, was likely due to a RFD surge. The tornado then crossed a |large wooded area with damage again observed to a property on the |east side of the wooded area along Hunting Quarter Road. Numerous |trees were snapped on the property with damage also occuring to a |house due to a downed tree limb. Power lines were also knocked |down. Debris was then lofted towards a farm across Hunting Quarter|Road. The tornado then weakened and lifted just west of Deep |Grass Lane with only a few down branches being noted. |
| August 2002 | Wildfire | Farmington | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powelton | 1.2 miles | 20 | |
| Six Forks | 2.9 miles | 20 | |
| Andrewsville | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Fleming Corners | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Harrington | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Williamsville | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| John Char Estates | 4.2 miles | 20 | |
| Vernon | 4.3 miles | 19 |
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 Farmington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q657772 | 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 213949. 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.










