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Freeman Corner, Delaware

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Milford South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19963. It stands on Johnson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle.

Freeman Corner within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Freeman Corner between 2002 and 2016, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
9 September 2002Naturalunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2016Smoking1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceFLEATOWN
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 August 2004Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use30 acresDelaware Forest ServiceFLEA FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Freeman Corner: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Porter Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Porter Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Shawnee0.2 miles21
Farm View Park0.9 miles21
Abbotts Mill1.0 miles21
Stanley Manor1.1 miles21
Webb Manor1.2 miles21
Wisseman Acres1.3 miles21
Evergreen Acres1.4 miles21
The Heath1.4 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q122544136The 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 215561. 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.