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.
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
Adams Home Farmlisted 2015- Richards Historic Districtlisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresGreenwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 973 | |
| 2020 | 990 | +17 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2015Regional 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 use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | CONCORD FIRE |
| 12 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | CROP FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | $100,000 | A 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | $100,000 | A 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 2007 | Lightning | Greenwood | $25,000 | A lightning strike caused an ensuing barn fire on a property on Sussex Highway in Greenwood. Damage was estimated at $25,000. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Greenwood | - | Flood waters reached at least 12 homes in Greenwood. The rising water was reported to have damaged 4 vehicles. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | Call Center reports a downed tree onto wires in Greenwood. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2022 | Heavy Rain | Greenwood | - | CWOP station EW7993 storm total rainfall near Georgetown. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | Reports of trees and wires down in Greenwood, DE. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | Several reports of downed trees and wires northeast of Bridgeville. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | Trees were downed in Greenwood. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | Several reports of downed power lines in the Greenwood area. Time estimated from radar. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | Two large trees were reported blown down. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | Several trees were downed in western Sussex County, resulting in power outages. Time estimated from radar. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | Two trees were reported down on Scotts Store Rd. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Greenwood | - | About four and a half inches of rain fell at this DEOS. |
| June 2017 | Tornado (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 2016 | Heavy Rain | Greenwood | - | Just over four and a half inches of rain fell. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Greenwood | - | Just over five inches of rain fell. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Greenwood | - | Just over five inches of rain fell. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Greenwood | - | Five inches of rain fell. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Greenwood | - | 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 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Greenwood | - | 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 2007 | Heavy Rain | Greenwood | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Greenwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Greenwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Greenwood | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hickory Ridge | 0.6 miles | 19 | |
| Greenwood Gardens | 0.7 miles | 19 | |
| Saint Johnstown | 0.9 miles | 19 | |
| Deer Creek | 1.1 miles | 19 | |
| Newton Woods | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Cocked Hat | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Blanchard | 3.4 miles | 19 | |
| Owens | 3.5 miles | 19 |
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 Greenwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q756094 | 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 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.










