Mahan, Delaware

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Central Kent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19934. It stands on Culbreth Marsh Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Marydel quadrangle.

Mahan within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 28 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.

1899 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1906 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1920 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000
1926 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500
1931 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Marydel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Dover quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Marydel quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

25 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mahan between 2005 and 2019, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
19 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
19 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	4.7 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
12 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
10 July 2007	Natural	4.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
24 June 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent 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 Mahan: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Clough and Caulk Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	L.D. Caulk Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kent 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
Choptank Mills	0.9 miles	28
Smith Crossroads	2.0 miles	28
Sandtown	2.2 miles	28
Chapeltown	2.6 miles	28
Marydel	3.5 miles	28
Lords Corner	3.6 miles	28
Oak Point Acres	3.8 miles	28
Petersburg	3.8 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216144. 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.