Mermaid, Delaware

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Pike Creek-Central Kirkwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19808. The Survey maps it on the Newark East quadrangle.

Mermaid within New Castle County

On record in Mermaid

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 4 records

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

Mermaid Tavernlisted 1973 · 0.1 miles away
R. Walker Barnlisted 1986 · 0.4 miles away
J. Lindsay Barnlisted 1986 · 0.6 miles away
J. Walker Farmlisted 1986 · 0.8 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 Newark East quadrangle1:24000, 4 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 Newark East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

29 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Mermaid between 2003 and 2006, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
22 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mermaid in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2004	Lightning	Mermaid	$10,000	no account filed
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mermaid	-	Tree and wire damage along Mill Creek Road. Time estimated from radar.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Mermaid	-	Trees and wires were downed near New Granville Rd and Ochletree Ln. Time estimated from radar.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mermaid	-	Trees and wires were downed near the intersection of Millcreek Rd and Valley Brook Dr. Time estimated from radar.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mermaid	-	Several large trees were reported down in the Sherwood II development. Time estimated from radar.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mermaid	-	A tree was knocked onto a truck due to a thunderstorm wind gust. A branch stabbed the windshield and went into the passenger seat.
June 2023	Hail	Mermaid	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Weatherhill Farms	0.1 miles	32
Mermaid Run	0.2 miles	32
Woodcreek	0.3 miles	32
Linden Heath	0.4 miles	32
Eastburn Farms	0.4 miles	32
Pike Creek Valley	0.5 miles	32
Plum Run	0.7 miles	32
Linden Hill	0.9 miles	32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216153. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.