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Gumboro, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Laurel-Delmar census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19966. It stands on Lewis Prong. The Survey maps it on the Whaleyville quadrangle. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Gumboro within Sussex County

On record in Gumboro

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 1 record

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

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Gumboro between 2005 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
5 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2016Smoking1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSIMPSON
9 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest ServiceNEW HOPE RD
19 July 2012Natural2.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
27 June 2013Equipment and vehicle use12 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
24 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreDelaware Forest ServiceGUMBORO
10 March 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gumboro in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 3 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2010LightningGumboro$5,000A lightning strike caused a structural fire in Gumboro.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindGumboro$5,000A line of severe thunderstorms produced wind damage from Gumboro north through Georgetown and Milton. Wires were knocked down in Gumboro. A wind gust to 63 mph was measured at the Sussex County Airport near Georgetown. A hangar was damaged at the airport. Trees fell onto a roadway in Millsboro and poles were leaning with wires down in Milton.
July 2011LightningGumboro$1,000Lightning struck a home in Gumboro.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGumboro-Wires were downed near Gumboro. Time estimated from radar.
September 2016Heavy RainGumboro-Four and a quarter inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainGumboro-Just under four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainGumboro-Four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainGumboro-Almost five inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainGumboro-Just under five inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainGumboro-Four and a quarter inches of rain fell.
July 2008Flash FloodGumboro-Slow moving and repeating thunderstorms with heavy rain caused poor drainage, field and flooding of smaller streams in and around Dagsboro Hundred. Doppler Radar storm total estimates reached between 6 and 7 inches within Dagsboro.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGumboro-A 300 foot long chicken house holding 15,000 young birds was destroyed by the high winds. Many trees around the area were uprooted.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGumboro-no account filed
August 2001LightningGumboro-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGumboro-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindGumboro-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
Westwoods1.3 miles19
Bethel1.7 miles19
Nentego Manor2.6 miles20
Shaft Ox Corner3.3 miles20
Whitesville3.5 miles18
Lowes Crossroads3.8 miles19
Pepperbox4.2 miles18
Mission4.8 miles20

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 GumboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5574925The 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 216106. 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.