Gum Crossroads, Delaware

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.

• 1917 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1938 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 3 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 Georgetown quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Gum Crossroads between 2012 and 2016, burning about 21 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Flea Hill
• Knowles Crossroads
• McDonalds Crossroads
• Old Furnace
• Whaleys Corners
• Broad Acres

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gum Crossroads: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Sussex County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216105. 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.