Hollymount, Delaware

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 19951. It stands on Wall Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle.

Hollymount within Sussex County

On record in Hollymount

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.

Indian Mission Churchlisted 1979 · 0.7 miles away
St. George's Chapellisted 1973 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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.

1918 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hollymount between 1995 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 July 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 April 2012	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
11 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
1 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT II 00

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fairmount	0.6 miles	31
Indian Mission	0.7 miles	31
Hollyville Acres	1.0 miles	31
Danfield Acres	1.0 miles	31
Beaver Dam Acres	1.0 miles	31
Hollyville	1.1 miles	31
Lochwood	1.4 miles	31
White Horse Farm	2.0 miles	22

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 Hollymount	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5882422	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 216115. 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.