Greens of Dover, Delaware

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Dover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19904. It stands on Maidstone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle.

Greens of Dover within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 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.

1899 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1906 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1920 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000
1926 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500
1931 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Dover quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
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 Dover quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Dover quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Greens of Dover between 2002 and 2004, burning about 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 April 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 January 2004	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 Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Greens of Dover: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
George Nashold Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
George Nashold Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tarburton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Tarburton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent 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
Zurkow Development	0.1 miles	29
Mallard Pond	0.2 miles	29
Bicentennial Village	0.2 miles	29
Heatherfield	0.3 miles	29
Presidential Courts	0.5 miles	29
Four Seasons	0.5 miles	29
Woodstock Court	0.6 miles	29
The Hamlet	0.6 miles	29

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 Q122596890

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 215569. 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.