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.
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.
Spring Bankelisted 1976 · 0.9 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresMillville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 544 | |
| 2020 | 1,825 | +1,281 (+235%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 31 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.
- 1918 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Bethany Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Bethany Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Bethany Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Bethany Beach quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Bethany Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2002Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 March 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 26 November 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Lightning | Millville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Lightning | Millville | $1,000 | County 911 call center reports a house struck by lightning. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2011 | Lightning | Millville | $1,000 | Lightning struck a home in Millville. |
| July 2017 | Lightning | Millville | $10 | A lightning strike took down some wires. Time estimated. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Millville | - | Water rescue of a person from a vehicle in flood water. Bethany Forest Drive flooded. |
| June 2021 | Lightning | Millville | - | Residential structure fire due to lightning on Carrol Dr. Time estimated from dispatch calls. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Millville | - | Just over 4 inches of rain fell in 24 hours. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Millville | - | 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 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Millville | - | 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millville | - | A severe thunderstorm tore a couple of trees in Millville (Baltimore Hundred). |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roxford | 0.4 miles | 30 | |
| Denton Mills | 0.4 miles | 31 | |
| Banksville Park | 0.5 miles | 31 | |
| Banks Development | 0.6 miles | 31 | |
| Pine Grove | 0.8 miles | 31 | |
| Byewood Manor | 0.8 miles | 31 | |
| Mill Run Acres | 0.8 miles | 31 | |
| Collins Creek Estates | 0.8 miles | 31 |
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 Millville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q754417 | 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 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.














