Landenberg Junction, Delaware

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Lower Christiana census division. It stands on Chestnut Run. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington South quadrangle. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Landenberg Junction within New Castle County

On record in Landenberg Junction

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Johnson, William Julius "Judy" Houselisted 1995 · 0.8 miles away
Greenbank Historic Arealisted 1973 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 33 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.

1904 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1919 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Wilmington South 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 South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Wilmington South quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Wilmington South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

28 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Landenberg Junction between 2003 and 2005, burning about 12 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	24
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
23 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
21 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Landenberg Junction: 2 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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	Recorded
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.	Chromium	Past Producer
Wilmington Plant Dupont	Titanium	Plant
Wilmington Plantozark-Mahoning	Fluorine-Fluorite	Plant
Constructors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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
Liberty	0.1 miles	33
Avalon	0.2 miles	33
Wood Wards Addition	0.5 miles	33
Prices Corner	0.5 miles	33
Gordy Estates	0.5 miles	33
Belvidere	0.6 miles	33
Cranston Heights	0.7 miles	32
Westview	0.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Landenberg Junction	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15241462	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 216133. 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.