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Murrays Development, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19947. It stands on Savannah Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle.

Murrays Development within Sussex County

On record in Murrays Development

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 12 of 15 shown

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

Every listing in Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

30 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Murrays Development between 2002 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 2 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
Smoking7
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2013Smokingunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2015Smoking1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSMOKE FIRE
3 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreDelaware Forest ServiceDEEP FIRE
28 September 2015Recreation and ceremony10 acresDelaware Forest ServiceWALMART FIRE
6 August 2002Naturalunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSNAG FIRE
20 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2012Smoking2.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Bowdens Garage (historical)0.4 miles22
Greenlea Acres0.4 miles22
Georgetown0.5 miles19
Highland Terrace0.6 miles19
Harlemtown0.6 miles19
Kings Second Addition0.8 miles19
Swain Acres1.0 miles19
Rogers Development1.0 miles22

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 Q122568177The 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 215537. 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.