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Green Hill, Delaware

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Lewes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19958. It stands on Canary Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lewes quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Green Hill within Sussex County

On record in Green Hill

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 27 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Green Hill between 1992 and 2001, burning about 55 acres in total. None 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/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
5 July 1997Arson/incendiarism15 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNITIINO4
13 May 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeFIELD 2 03
11 May 1992Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNIT2-9202
11 April 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNIT2-9201
27 March 1995Arson/incendiarism14 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNIT II
18 March 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNIT 29401
16 March 1997Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNITIINO3
16 March 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresPrime Hook National Wildlife RefugeUNITIINO2

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 Green Hill: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite. 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
BarcroftMagnesiteProducer1972
Lewes 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
Lewes Beach1.1 miles27
Pilottown1.1 miles27
Black Hog Landing1.7 miles27
Swanendael1.8 miles27
Lewes1.9 miles27
Highland Acres1.9 miles27
Savannah Place1.9 miles27
Oyster Rocks2.0 miles27

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 Q5602644The 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 216103. 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.