Lancaster Court, Delaware

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Lower Christiana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19805. It stands on Chestnut Run. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington North quadrangle. It stands 128 feet above sea level.

Lancaster Court within New Castle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 35 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.

1901 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1943 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
1967 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Lancaster Court between 2003 and 2005, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 April 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lancaster Court: 2 plants, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.	Chromium	Past Producer
Wilmington Plant Dupont	Titanium	Plant
Wilmington Plantozark-Mahoning	Fluorine-Fluorite	Plant

Every working recorded in New Castle 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
Silverbrook	0.2 miles	35
West Park	0.3 miles	35
Silver Springs	0.5 miles	35
Willow Run	0.7 miles	33
West Haven	0.7 miles	35
Lancaster Village	0.7 miles	33
Elsmere	0.8 miles	33
Colonial Heights	0.9 miles	33

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 Q6483163

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 217113. 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.