Meadowbrook Farms, Delaware

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Middletown-Odessa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19709. The Survey maps it on the Saint Georges quadrangle.

Meadowbrook Farms within New Castle County

On record in Meadowbrook Farms

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 1 record

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

A. Eliason Houselisted 1985 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 32 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
1953 USGS Saint Georges quadrangle1:24000, 5 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
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Saint Georges quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Meadowbrook Farms between 2006 and 2017, burning about 16 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
14 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	13 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
8 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	BETHEL WMA
1 November 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
28 January 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Meadowbrook Farms South	0.4 miles	32
Mount Pleasant	0.7 miles	32
Crystal Run Farm	1.3 miles	32
Summit Bridge	1.8 miles	32
Armstrong	2.0 miles	29
Jamisons Corner	2.1 miles	32
Lorewood Grove	2.9 miles	32
Airmont Acres	3.0 miles	32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215620. 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.