Knowles Crossroads, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19947. It stands on Big Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Knowles 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

12 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Knowles Crossroads between 2012 and 2016, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 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
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
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
31 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SNAG FIRE
6 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
19 July 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
29 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
28 April 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
22 April 2016	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	BAKERMILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex 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 Knowles Crossroads: 2 past producers. 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
	Deep Creek Mine	Iron	Past Producer
	Pine Creek Forge Mine	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
McDonalds Crossroads	1.0 miles	19
Flea Hill	1.0 miles	19
Gum Crossroads	1.1 miles	19
Whaleys Corners	1.2 miles	19
Hardscrabble	3.0 miles	19
Jones Crossroads	3.4 miles	19
Old Furnace	3.5 miles	19
Woodcrest Estates	3.6 miles	19

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.

Wikidata item Q6423413

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 216132. 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.