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Kitts Hummock, Delaware

30 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 19901. It stands on Kitts Hummock. The Survey maps it on the Frederica quadrangle. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Kitts Hummock within Kent County

On record in Kitts Hummock

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Kitts Hummock between 2002 and 2004, burning about 204 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 August 2002Naturalunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 August 2002Natural1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 August 2002Naturalunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 August 2002Naturalunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 August 2002Natural1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kitts Hummock: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dover Equip. Co. Dredge No. 7Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St Jones River Gravel Co Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kitts Hummock in 3 storm reports in 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindKitts Hummock-A tree was downed onto a mobile home. Other damage reports were received from the area. Damage in this area was studied for a possible weak tornado produced by the parent circulation which produced a weak tornado in Caroline County, Maryland. It was determined damage was most likely consistent with straight line winds.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindKitts Hummock-A tree was downed on US-1 just south of Dover AFB. Time estimated from radar and nearby reports.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindKitts Hummock-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Generals Greene1.8 miles33
Bowers Beach3.0 miles30
Warren Landing3.0 miles30
South Bowers3.1 miles30
Barkers Landing3.2 miles30
Bayview Heights3.2 miles30
Postles Corner3.3 miles33
Bay View Heights3.3 miles30

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 Kitts HummockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6418491The 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 214198. 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.

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.