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Hartly, Delaware

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Dover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19953. The Survey maps it on the Kenton quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Hartly within Kent County

Population over time

2 figures

Hartly fell from 74 to 73 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
201074
202073-1 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 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

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hartly between 2005 and 2017, burning about 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
10 July 2007Natural1.1 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
25 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartly in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHartly$25,000A severe thunderstorm knocked down several trees and wires in Hartly. One tree fell onto and damaged a building. Another downed tree damaged a house's porch. A third large downed tree took down wires along Crystal Road.
August 2003LightningHartly$10,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHartly-Tree limbs and wires were downed east of Hartly. Time estimated from radar.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHartly-Several reports of downed trees and wires were received near Crystal Rd southeast of Hartly. Time estimated from radar.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHartly-A power pole and wires were downed near Judith Rd near Hartly. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHartly-Wires were reported down in the Hartly area. Time estimated from radar.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindHartly-Several trees reported down between Hartly and Marydel.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHartly-A few trees were taken down due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2014Funnel CloudHartly-A funnel cloud was observed in Hartly. Downwind, this funnel cloud touched down and became a tornado.
June 2013Flash FloodHartly-Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused roadway and small stream flash flooding and field flooding across central Kent County. Over a dozen roadways were flooded and closed including Delaware State Route 1 in Federica. Most of the closed roadways were in and around Dover and Felton. Event precipitation totals include 2.26 inches in Felton and 2.15 inches in Dover.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHartly-A severe thunderstorm tore down several large tree limbs and wires across the northern half of Kent County. A measured wind gust of 52 mph was recorded at the Dover Air Force Base.
August 2009Flash FloodHartly-Thunderstorms with torrential downpours caused flash flooding of smaller streams in northwestern Kent County. Doppler Radar storm total estimates reached between 2.5 and 3.0 inches.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHartly-A severe thunderstorm knocked down a couple of trees in Hartley. A downed tree blocked Slaughter Station Road.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindHartly-no account filed
June 2002HailHartly-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHartly-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHartly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Rehak0.4 miles29
Slaughter0.6 miles29
Oak Forest Estates1.2 miles29
Wrights Crossroads1.5 miles29
Davis Corner1.7 miles29
Fords Corner1.8 miles29
Bethesda2.4 miles29
Green Briar2.5 miles29

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 HartlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q754320The 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 214061. 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.