Mechanicsville, 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 within a mile 2 records

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

• Wesley M.E. Churchlisted 1983 · 0.4 miles away
• Samuel Lindsey Houselisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1898 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1917 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Newark West quadrangle1:24000, 6 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
• 1992 USGS Newark West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Mechanicsville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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:

• Amaranth
• Bristle Knoll
• Covered Bridge Farms
• Fairfield
• Fairfield Crest
• McClellandville

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mechanicsville: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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 New Castle 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 214295. 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.