Fenwick Island, Delaware
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19944. It lies near Marsh Island (historical). The Survey maps it on the Assawoman Bay quadrangle. 343 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
On record in Fenwick Island
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
Fenwick Island Lighthouse Stationlisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresFenwick Island fell from 379 to 343 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 | 379 | |
| 2020 | 343 | -36 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 surveys from 27 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.
- 1901 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fenwick Island in 2010, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | CYGNET LANE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fenwick Estates | 0.7 miles | 27 | |
| Fenwick Landing | 1.0 miles | 27 | |
| The Shoals | 1.0 miles | 27 | |
| Sea Dunes | 1.2 miles | 27 | |
| Seaside Villas | 1.2 miles | 27 | |
| Seatowne | 1.3 miles | 27 | |
| Queens Quest | 1.5 miles | 27 | |
| Kings Grant | 1.7 miles | 27 |
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 Fenwick Island | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q291295 | 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 213954. 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.















