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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.

Farmington within Kent County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Farmington 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.

YearPeople Change
2010110
202092-18 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

2 since 2012

Regional 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/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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 April 2012Debris and open burning2.5 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
12 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceCONCORD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Tornado (F0)Farmington4 hurt, $200,000no account filed
June 2011LightningFarmington$200,000Lightning 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 2023HailFarmington-Spotter reported 1 inch hail. Time given in report.
July 2021Tornado (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 2002WildfireFarmington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Powelton1.2 miles20
Six Forks2.9 miles20
Andrewsville3.0 miles19
Fleming Corners3.5 miles20
Harrington3.8 miles20
Williamsville4.1 miles20
John Char Estates4.2 miles20
Vernon4.3 miles19

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 FarmingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q657772The 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.