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.
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
West Woods Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 2007
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.
- 1902 USGS Pittsville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1942 USGS Whaleysville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Whaleysville quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Whaleysville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 2016 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | SIMPSON |
| 9 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | NEW HOPE RD |
| 19 July 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 27 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 24 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | GUMBORO |
| 10 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Lightning | Gumboro | $5,000 | A lightning strike caused a structural fire in Gumboro. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gumboro | $5,000 | A 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 2011 | Lightning | Gumboro | $1,000 | Lightning struck a home in Gumboro. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gumboro | - | Wires were downed near Gumboro. Time estimated from radar. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Gumboro | - | Four and a quarter inches of rain fell. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Gumboro | - | Just under four and a half inches of rain fell. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Gumboro | - | Four and a half inches of rain fell. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Gumboro | - | Almost five inches of rain fell. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Gumboro | - | Just under five inches of rain fell. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Gumboro | - | Four and a quarter inches of rain fell. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Gumboro | - | 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gumboro | - | 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gumboro | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Lightning | Gumboro | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gumboro | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gumboro | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westwoods | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| Bethel | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Nentego Manor | 2.6 miles | 20 | |
| Shaft Ox Corner | 3.3 miles | 20 | |
| Whitesville | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Lowes Crossroads | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Pepperbox | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Mission | 4.8 miles | 20 |
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 Gumboro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5574925 | 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 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.










