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Millville, Delaware

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19967. It stands on Derrickson Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Bethany Beach quadrangle. 1,825 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Millville within Sussex County

On record in Millville

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 1 record

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

Population over time

2 figures

Millville grew from 544 to 1,825 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.

YearPeople Change
2010544
20201,825+1,281 (+235%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Millville between 2002 and 2004, burning about 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 March 2002Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 November 2004Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millville in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 lightning, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007LightningMillville$25,000no account filed
August 2022LightningMillville$1,000County 911 call center reports a house struck by lightning. Time estimated from radar.
July 2011LightningMillville$1,000Lightning struck a home in Millville.
July 2017LightningMillville$10A lightning strike took down some wires. Time estimated.
June 2025Flash FloodMillville-Water rescue of a person from a vehicle in flood water. Bethany Forest Drive flooded.
June 2021LightningMillville-Residential structure fire due to lightning on Carrol Dr. Time estimated from dispatch calls.
September 2016Heavy RainMillville-Just over 4 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.
July 2013Flash FloodMillville-Thunderstorms with torrential downpours caused flash flooding from Millville and Oceanview east to Bethany Beach. Water rescues were performed, but no serious injuries were reported. In Bethany Beach, Hollywood Street and Pennsylvania Avenuie were flooded as people resorted to kayaking to move around. Event precipitation totals included 6.62 inches in Bethany Beach.
September 2013Funnel CloudMillville-A thunderstorm produced a funnel cloud that was seen by several eyewitnesses over a corn field near Railway Road and Delaware State Route 26 in Millville. While eyewitness accounts stated that the funnel came close to the ground, no damage was reported.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMillville-A severe thunderstorm tore a couple of trees in Millville (Baltimore Hundred).

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Roxford0.4 miles30
Denton Mills0.4 miles31
Banksville Park0.5 miles31
Banks Development0.6 miles31
Pine Grove0.8 miles31
Byewood Manor0.8 miles31
Mill Run Acres0.8 miles31
Collins Creek Estates0.8 miles31

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 MillvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q754417The 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 214323. 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.