New Market, Delaware

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Milford South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19941. The Survey maps it on the Ellendale quadrangle.

New Market within Sussex County

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.

1918 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1919 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Ellendale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Ellendale quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

44 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of New Market between 2002 and 2020, burning about 157 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 were 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	10
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
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 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	GRAVEL FIRE
9 September 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
9 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2016	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	FLEATOWN
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 August 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	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
Ellendale	1.4 miles	20
Walkers Acres	1.8 miles	20
Federalsburg	2.2 miles	20
Reynolds Mill	2.8 miles	22
Tessie-Maringola Estates	2.8 miles	20
Holly Hill	2.8 miles	20
Sussex Woods	3.0 miles	20
Hudson Pond Acres	3.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216750. 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.