Milford, Delaware

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Milford South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19963. It stands on Presbyterian Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle. 11,190 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Milford within Sussex County

On record in Milford

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 11 records

Abbott's Milllisted 1972
Abbott's Mill (Boundary Increase)listed 1979
Carlisle Houselisted 1982
Draper Houselisted 1982
Egglinton Halllisted 1983
Grier Houselisted 1983
Milford Railroad Stationlisted 1983
Milford Shipyard Area Historic Districtlisted 1983
Mispillion Lighthouse and Beacon Towerlisted 1987
Dr. Dawson Houselisted 1983
South Milford Historic Districtlisted 1983

Population over time

2 figures

Milford grew from 9,559 to 11,190 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	9,559
2020	11,190	+1,631 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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 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

Fires near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Milford between 2002 and 2015, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
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
9 August 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Delaware Forest Service	FLEA FIRE
9 April 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
6 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	WHEAT FIRE
15 February 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Milford: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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

Every working recorded in Sussex 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
South Milford (historical)	0.1 miles	21
Bowen Landing	1.1 miles	21
Brown Street	1.1 miles	21
Evergreen Acres	1.2 miles	21
Webb Manor	1.2 miles	21
Country Club Estates	1.2 miles	21
Lakewood Development	1.3 miles	21
Lakewood	1.5 miles	21

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.

Wikipedia article on Milford	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q755600	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 214308. 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.