Goose Point, Delaware

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Glasgow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19702. It stands on Guthrie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Elkton quadrangle.

Goose Point within New Castle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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.

1898 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1917 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Goose Point between 2005 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	4
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2005	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
24 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	HOWARD
21 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
19 March 2006	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
18 March 2015	Arson/incendiarism	9.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
18 March 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
18 March 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle 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
Pencader Farms	1.8 miles	34
Summit Bridge	2.6 miles	32
Frasers Corner	2.6 miles	34
Shelley Farms	2.6 miles	34
Little Jersey	3.3 miles	32
Meadowbrook Farms	3.5 miles	32
Melody Meadows	3.5 miles	32
Marabou Meadows	3.6 miles	32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216743. 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.