Kings Crossroads, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Milford South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19947. It stands on Prong Number One. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle.

Kings Crossroads within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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.

1917 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

32 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Kings Crossroads between 2002 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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	10
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Natural	2

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
9 September 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
3 September 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SMOKE FIRE
28 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Delaware Forest Service	WALMART FIRE
6 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
31 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SNAG FIRE
6 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 July 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
1 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kings Crossroads: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
	Collins Mine and Plant	Iron	Past Producer

Every working 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
Redden Crossroads	1.7 miles	19
Redden	1.9 miles	19
Robbins	2.0 miles	20
Collins Pond Acres	4.0 miles	19
Walkers Acres	4.2 miles	20
Ellendale	4.5 miles	20
Collins Mill Park	4.5 miles	19
Oakley	4.6 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216130. 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.