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Greenville, Delaware

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Piedmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19807. It lies near Holly Island. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington North quadrangle. 3,104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 256 feet above sea level.

Greenville within New Castle County

On record in Greenville

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Greenville grew from 2,326 to 3,104 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,326
20203,104+778 (+33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 35 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

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Greenville between 2003 and 2018, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 April 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionSTRIKER
8 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 November 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 November 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 October 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle 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 Greenville: 2 plants, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Mica. 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
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.ChromiumPast Producer
Fairville Mica OccurrenceMicaOccurrence
Wilmington Plant DupontTitaniumPlant
Wilmington Plantozark-MahoningFluorine-FluoritePlant

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenville in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2017Thunderstorm WindGreenville2 hurtA tree fell onto a car due to thunderstorm winds, Two people were injured in the car.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenville-Trees down in Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenville-Trees and power poles down n Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenville-Trees and wires were downed in Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenville-A tree was downed near the intersection of Montchanin Rd and Buck Rd. Time estimated from radar.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGreenville-A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees and wires in Greenville (Christina Hundred).
November 2013Thunderstorm WindGreenville-A severe thunderstorm knocked down large tree limbs and wires in Greenville in Christina Hundred.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGreenville-A severe thunderstorm knocked down some large trees in and around Greenville. At least one road was blocked by fallen trees. About 8,000 homes and businesses lost power in New Castle County. There were still nearly 1,000 homes and businesses without power at 9 p.m. EDT that evening.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenville-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindGreenville-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Greenville Manor0.2 miles35
Greenville Development0.4 miles35
Montchan0.4 miles35
Greenville Place0.4 miles35
Nanticoke Farms0.4 miles35
Monroe Park0.5 miles35
Fairthorne0.5 miles35
West Farm0.6 miles35

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.

Wikipedia article on GreenvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q755754The 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 214034. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.