Lewes, Delaware

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 12 of 19 shown

• Lightship WLV 539National Historic Landmark · listed 1989
• Coleman Houselisted 1977
• Cool Spring Presbyterian Churchlisted 1982
• Delaware Breakwater and Lewes Harborlisted 1976
• Fisher's Paradiselisted 1972
• Hall, Col. David, Houselisted 1976
• Hopkins' Covered Bridge Farmlisted 1991
• Lewes Historic Districtlisted 1977
• Lewes Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1992
• Lewes Presbyterian Churchlisted 1977
• Maull Houselisted 1970
• Thomas Maull House (Boundary Increase)listed 1978

Every listing in Sussex County

Lewes grew from 2,747 to 3,303 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1918 USGS Cape Henlopen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1937 USGS Cape Henlopen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Cape Henlopen quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lewes between 1992 and 2016, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Belltown
• Covey Creek
• Donovan Development
• Dutch Acres
• Five Points
• Highland Acres

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

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

Every working recorded in Sussex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewes in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 lightning, 1 rip current, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Sussex County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 214214. 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.