Monterey Farms, Delaware

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the New Castle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19720. It stands on Pigeon Run. The Survey maps it on the Newark East quadrangle.

Monterey Farms within New Castle County

On record in Monterey Farms

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.

Buena Vistalisted 1971 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 32 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.

1904 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1919 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Newark East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Newark East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Monterey Farms: 10 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur, Aluminum. 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
Delaware Plant Getty	Sulfur	Plant
New Castle Plant C-E Minerals	Aluminum	Plant
Delaware Brick Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Delaware Brick Co. Pit and Mill	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Constructors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Freeway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Freeway Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Route 40 Farm	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in New Castle 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
Tybouts Corner	0.5 miles	32
Pigeon Run	0.6 miles	32
Bear	0.9 miles	32
Kinston Acres	1.0 miles	32
Rivers End	1.1 miles	32
Fairwinds	1.2 miles	32
Moores Acres	1.2 miles	32
Garwood Estates	1.3 miles	32

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 Q122549748

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 215732. 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.

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.