BlockMelvin Crossroads, Delaware
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Harrington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19952. It stands on Hopkins Prong. The Survey maps it on the Burrsville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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 Harrington quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Burrsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Burrsville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Melvin Crossroads between 2005 and 2017, burning about 49 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 19 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 21 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Layton Corners | 2.0 miles | 19 | |
| Brownsville | 2.2 miles | 19 | |
| McKnatt Corners | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Whiteleysburg | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Hopkins Corners | 3.4 miles | 19 | |
| Hughes Crossroads | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Greenville | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Vernon | 4.0 miles | 19 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122549060 | 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 216152. 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.