Melvins, Delaware

20 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 Indian Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harrington quadrangle.

Melvins within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

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 Harrington quadrangle1:24000, 3 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 Harrington quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Melvins: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Barber Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Barber Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stayton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Staytons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
William M. Killen Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
William M. Killen Sand 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
Bloomfield Acres	0.7 miles	20
Pine Ridge	0.8 miles	20
Argos Choice	0.8 miles	20
Lucky Estates	1.1 miles	20
Jacksons Ridge	1.1 miles	20
Marvels Crossroads	1.1 miles	20
Pleasant Woods	1.3 miles	20
Fernwood	1.4 miles	20

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 Q122568633

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 216797. 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.

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.