Hourglass, 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.

Hourglass within Kent County

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.

1899 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1906 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1920 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000
1926 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500
1931 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Kenton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
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 Kenton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hourglass between 2005 and 2017, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
10 July 2007	Natural	1.1 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
5 May 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
17 May 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
8 March 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
4 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bethesda	0.9 miles	29
Green Briar	1.4 miles	29
Chapeltown	2.0 miles	28
Oak Point Acres	2.2 miles	28
Hazlettville	2.2 miles	28
Pearsons Corner	2.5 miles	29
Davis Corner	2.6 miles	29
Smith Crossroads	2.8 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216813. 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.