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North Star, Delaware

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Piedmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19711. The Survey maps it on the Kennett Square quadrangle. 8,056 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 348 feet above sea level.

North Star within New Castle County

On record in North Star

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 3 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

North Star grew from 7,980 to 8,056 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
20107,980
20208,056+76 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

29 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of North Star between 2003 and 2018, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined23
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 July 2011Smoking5.0 acresPennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionWOODWARD FIRE
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 June 2003Missing 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Star in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 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
July 2008LightningNorth Star$2,000A lightning strike caused a house fire in the Tenby Chase Development off of Baltimore Road in Hockessin. When firefighters arrived, they saw smoke billowing from the roof. Two people in the home escaped. It was under control within 20 minutes and the fire was contained to the roof.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Star-A tree was downed on Galaxy Dr. Time based on dispatch reports.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Star-Trees and wires were downed near the intersection of Upper Pike Creek Rd and Spring Side Ln. Time estimated from radar.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNorth Star-A severe thunderstorm knocked over several large limbs as well as a tree across Delaware State Route 7 in Hockessin (Mill Creek Hundred).

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
North Star Addition0.4 miles33
Wood Ridge0.6 miles33
Ainsley Woods0.6 miles33
Meadowbrook0.6 miles33
Bridleshire Farms0.6 miles33
Jarrell Farms0.7 miles33
Tenby Chase0.7 miles33
Hockessin Hunt0.7 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 North StarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q754427The 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 216809. 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.

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.