Milford Crossing, 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 10 records

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

• Walnut Farmlisted 1982 · 0.2 miles away
• Gov. William T. Watson Mansionlisted 1982 · 0.7 miles away
• Peter Lofland Houselisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away
• Christ Churchlisted 1973 · 0.9 miles away
• Parson Thorne Mansionlisted 1971 · 0.9 miles away
• Old Fire Houselisted 1983 · 1.0 miles away
• Bank Houselisted 1978 · 1.0 miles away
• Mill Houselisted 1983 · 1.0 miles away
• James McColley Houselisted 1983 · 1.0 miles away
• North Milford Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.9 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.

• 1918 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1919 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
• 1938 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Milford 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 Milford quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Milford Crossing between 2002 and 2015, burning about 36 acres 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.

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:

• Haven Lake Estates
• North Milford (historical)
• North Shores
• Woods Haven
• Colony West
• Dogwood Meadows

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Milford Crossing: 3 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.

Every working recorded in Kent 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 2400489. 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.