Nentego Manor, Delaware

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Laurel-Delmar census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19966. It stands on Cowhouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Millsboro quadrangle.

Nentego Manor within Sussex County

On record in Nentego Manor

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.

West Woods Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 2007 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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.

1917 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:25000
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Nentego Manor between 2005 and 2019, burning about 193 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
6 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	NEW HOPE RD
19 July 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
27 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
13 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	160 acres	Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge	MILLSBORO FIRE
24 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	GUMBORO
28 February 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Shaft Ox Corner	0.7 miles	20
Westwoods	1.5 miles	19
Mission	2.2 miles	20
Lowes Crossroads	2.5 miles	19
Gumboro	2.6 miles	19
Hickory Hill	3.3 miles	20
Cross Keys	3.5 miles	20
Pusey Crossroads	3.9 miles	19

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 Q122569807

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 215357. 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.