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Hollyville, Delaware

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

Hollyville within Sussex County

On record in Hollyville

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.

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.

Fires near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Hollyville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 31 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
4 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2004Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 April 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollyville in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain, 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
April 2008LightningHollyville$1,500no account filed
December 2003Heavy RainHollyville-no account filed
May 1997Funnel CloudHollyville-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Danfield Acres0.3 miles31
Indian Mission0.4 miles31
Hollymount1.1 miles31
Fairmount1.2 miles31
Hollyville Acres1.3 miles31
White Horse Farm1.5 miles22
Beaver Dam Acres2.0 miles31
Andersons Corner2.1 miles22

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 HollyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5882462The 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 216116. 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.