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Greenwood, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Bridgeville-Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19950. It stands on White Marsh Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle. 990 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Greenwood within Sussex County

On record in Greenwood

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Greenwood grew from 973 to 990 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
2010973
2020990+17 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood between 2015 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
12 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceCONCORD FIRE
12 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceCROP FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwood in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 7 heavy rain, 3 funnel cloud, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$100,000A severe thunderstorm produced a swath of straight-line wind damage up to one-half mile wide in spots from southwestern Kent County into western Sussex County. Most of the wind damage occurred in Northwest Fork Hundred. Maximum wind gusts were estimated at 80 mph and caused property as well as substantial crop damage. One home sustained substantial damage. There was widespread crop damage from large hail.||Wind damage in Sussex County started near County Route 16 near Blanchard. The most significant damage occurred parallel to McDowell Road east of Woodbridge Road. A porch roof was ripped away from a wood-framed farm house, and a steel antenna tower next to the house was bent. A tree near the house was blown down, and a large chicken barn near the house collapsed. Farther east, another steel antenna tower was bent, and some shingles were torn off the roof of a nearby house. ||Corn was stripped to the stalk on many fields within the damage swath, resulting in a total loss in some cases. Wheat and barely fields also suffered substantial damage. Crop losses mainly from hail could easily total several hundred thousand dollars. ||Tree damage was also noted in the town of Greenwood. Small to medium sized limbs were torn away along Minor Street in downtown Greenwood. Some lawn furniture was blown around, and streets and driveways were littered with leaves. Some funnel clouds were reported, but they did not touch down.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$100,000A line of showers was accompanied by damaging winds as it moved through Greenwood around 1 a.m. EST. A radio tower lost part of its antenna, siding was ripped away from a storage center and the price sign and roof of a gas station was damaged. No injuries were reported.
September 2007LightningGreenwood$25,000A lightning strike caused an ensuing barn fire on a property on Sussex Highway in Greenwood. Damage was estimated at $25,000.
July 2023Flash FloodGreenwood-Flood waters reached at least 12 homes in Greenwood. The rising water was reported to have damaged 4 vehicles.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Call Center reports a downed tree onto wires in Greenwood. Time estimated from radar.
August 2022Heavy RainGreenwood-CWOP station EW7993 storm total rainfall near Georgetown.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Reports of trees and wires down in Greenwood, DE. Time estimated from radar.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Several reports of downed trees and wires northeast of Bridgeville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Trees were downed in Greenwood. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Several reports of downed power lines in the Greenwood area. Time estimated from radar.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Two large trees were reported blown down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Several trees were downed in western Sussex County, resulting in power outages. Time estimated from radar.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Two trees were reported down on Scotts Store Rd. Time estimated from radar.
July 2017Heavy RainGreenwood-About four and a half inches of rain fell at this DEOS.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Greenwood-Radar data indicated a rotation |signature which intensified for a time as an outflow boundary |settled southeastward and interacted with this storm. The radar |was scanning within 600 feet above ground level, with even|evidence of a tornado debris signature in the dual-pol data. A |tornado touched down between Nanticoke River and the intersection |of Sugar Hill Road and St. Johnstown Road, and tracked |northeastward for about 0.6 miles before lifting. There was |significant damage to a farm, with a couple of small barns |destroyed with a lot of debris lofted and blown far across an |adjacent field. Several trees were snapped or blown over along |with damage to a few nearby power poles and wires. A large |unoccupied chicken coup, about 200 feet in length, was lifted and |moved several feet off its foundation with some metal roof panels |on the north end were twisted in a southerly direction. Across the|street from the farm on Sugar Hill Road, a couple sections of |large central pivot irrigation systems were lifted and tipped onto|their side. Each section of the irrigation weighs about 8800 pounds.
September 2016Heavy RainGreenwood-Just over four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainGreenwood-Just over five inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainGreenwood-Just over five inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainGreenwood-Five inches of rain fell.
June 2009HailGreenwood-A severe thunderstorm also produced large hail west of Greenwood in Sussex County. There was widespread crop damage from large hail. The hail caused corn to be stripped to the stalk. Wheat and barely fields also suffered substantial damage. Crop losses could easily total several hundred thousand dollars. In the nearby garden, strawberry plants were pulverized by the hail. The most significant hail damage occurred parallel to McDowell Road east of Woodbridge Road. Hail size was estimated.
June 2009Funnel CloudGreenwood-A funnel cloud was sighted during a severe thunderstorm in northwest Sussex County. A National Weather Service damage survey indicated that all of the wind damage was straight line and that the funnel did not touch the ground.
January 2007Heavy RainGreenwood-Precipitation totals in Sussex County included 2.07 inches in Millsboro, 1.92 inches in Redden, 1.87 inches in Prime Hook and 1.81 inches in Georgetown.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-no account filed
July 2006Funnel CloudGreenwood-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudGreenwood-no account filed
June 1997HailGreenwood-no account filed

Every storm 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
Hickory Ridge0.6 miles19
Greenwood Gardens0.7 miles19
Saint Johnstown0.9 miles19
Deer Creek1.1 miles19
Newton Woods2.8 miles19
Cocked Hat3.0 miles19
Blanchard3.4 miles19
Owens3.5 miles19

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 GreenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q756094The 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 214035. 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.

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.