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Newport, Delaware

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Lower Christiana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19804. It stands on White Clay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington South quadrangle. 910 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Newport within New Castle County

On record in Newport

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 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

Newport fell from 1,055 to 910 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,055
2020910-145 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 33 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

26 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Newport between 2003 and 2005, burning about 12 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/undetermined22
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
22 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 August 2003Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 April 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Newport: 6 past producers, 3 plants, 1 producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aluminum, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.ChromiumPast Producer
New Castle Plant C-E MineralsAluminumPlant
Wilmington Plant DupontTitaniumPlant
Wilmington Plantozark-MahoningFluorine-FluoritePlant
Delaware Brick Co. PitClayPast Producer
Delaware Brick Co. Pit and MillClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Constructors Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wilson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Thunderstorm WindNewport-A severe thunderstorm knocked down about a half dozen trees in Newport.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNewport-A severe thunderstorm knocked down dozens of trees in Newport.
June 1998LightningNewport-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Colony Hills0.2 miles33
Newport Heights0.3 miles33
Bestfield0.4 miles33
Lyndalia0.5 miles33
Masonicville0.5 miles33
Forest Brook Glen0.6 miles33
Woodcrest0.6 miles33
Cedar Heights0.6 miles33

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 NewportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q755805The 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 214388. 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.

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.

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.