Long Neck, Delaware
30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19966. It stands on Lingo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frankford quadrangle. 3,017 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLong Neck grew from 1,980 to 3,017 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,980 | |
| 2020 | 3,017 | +1,037 (+52%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 30 printed sheetsMatched 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 Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Long Neck between 2002 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None 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 | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 11 July 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 June 2012 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 12 June 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 26 May 2015 | Smoking | 16 acres | Delaware Forest Service | SAVAGES FIRE |
| 13 May 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 5 April 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pot Nets West | 1.3 miles | 30 | |
| Sea Farers Village | 1.4 miles | 31 | |
| Sheep Pen Landing | 1.6 miles | 31 | |
| Lingo Landing | 1.7 miles | 31 | |
| Winding Creek Village | 1.7 miles | 31 | |
| William Ritter Manor | 1.9 miles | 31 | |
| Trinity | 1.9 miles | 30 | |
| Oak Orchard | 2.0 miles | 30 |
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 Long Neck | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q754459 | 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 1867106. 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.













