Ferry Landing, Delaware

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19966. It stands on Swan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frankford quadrangle.

Ferry Landing within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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 Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ferry Landing between 2002 and 2015, burning about 8 acres 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
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
23 August 2015	Smoking	5.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	GODWIN FIRE
11 July 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 April 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
7 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 March 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 February 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 December 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ferry Landing: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sussex Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working 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
Warwick	1.0 miles	30
Bullseye	1.1 miles	30
Sandy Beach	1.4 miles	20
Burton Acres	1.5 miles	20
Riverview	1.8 miles	20
Holiday Acres	1.8 miles	20
Warwick Park	1.8 miles	30
Gull Point	1.8 miles	30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216090. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.