BlockMidnight Thicket, Delaware
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Laurel-Delmar census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19956. It stands on Beaverdam Branch. The Survey maps it on the Laurel quadrangle. It stands 39 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 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.
- 1915 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Laurel 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
- 1992 USGS Laurel quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Midnight Thicket in 2016, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 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 April 2016 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | BAKERMILL |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Pines | 1.5 miles | 20 | |
| Lakeside Manor | 1.6 miles | 20 | |
| Sandy Fork | 1.6 miles | 20 | |
| Laurel Creek | 1.8 miles | 20 | |
| Sussex Estates | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Woodland Heights | 2.1 miles | 20 | |
| Frederick Acres | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Laurel | 2.2 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 Q6842820 | 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 216814. 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.