Federalsburg, Delaware

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Milford South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19941. The Survey maps it on the Ellendale quadrangle. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Federalsburg within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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.

1918 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1919 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Ellendale 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 Ellendale quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

36 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Federalsburg between 2002 and 2019, burning about 121 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Natural	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
9 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2016	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	FLEATOWN
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 August 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tessie-Maringola Estates	0.6 miles	20
Sussex Woods	0.7 miles	20
Holly Hill	0.8 miles	20
Hudson Pond Acres	1.1 miles	20
Hilltop Acres	1.4 miles	20
Ellendale	1.5 miles	20
Walkers Acres	1.6 miles	20
Greentop	1.8 miles	20

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 Federalsburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5440672	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 216748. 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.