Hay Point Landing, Delaware
32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Smyrna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19977. The Survey maps it on the Smyrna quadrangle.
On record in Hay Point Landing
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Short's Landing Hotel Complexlisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 32 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.
- 1899 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1920 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000
- 1931 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Dover quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hay Point Landing between 1999 and 2016, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | FISH |
| 18 March 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge | MISERY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hay Point Landing: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoskinson Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts Landing | 0.7 miles | 32 | |
| Taylors Gut Landing | 2.4 miles | 32 | |
| Duck Creek Landing | 2.4 miles | 32 | |
| Smyrna Landing | 3.8 miles | 32 | |
| Woodland Beach | 4.1 miles | 35 | |
| Ravenwood | 4.3 miles | 32 | |
| Commerce Square | 4.3 miles | 32 | |
| Mallards Run | 4.3 miles | 32 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122548377 | 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 217063. 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.













