BlockHolly Forest, Delaware
30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19945. The Survey maps it on the Frankford quadrangle.
On record in Holly Forest
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 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Spring Bankelisted 1976 · 1.0 miles away- Union Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church Complexlisted 2014 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 30 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.
- 1918 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Holly Forest between 2004 and 2017, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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 | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Delaware Forest Service | CEDAR CREEK |
| 26 November 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwood Acres | 0.6 miles | 30 | |
| Roxford | 0.8 miles | 30 | |
| Millville | 0.9 miles | 31 | |
| Howard Manor | 1.0 miles | 30 | |
| Pine Grove | 1.0 miles | 31 | |
| Clarksville | 1.0 miles | 30 | |
| Hidden Acres | 1.1 miles | 30 | |
| Denton Mills | 1.1 miles | 31 |
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 Q122558859 | 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 215344. 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.