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Ocean View, Delaware

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19970. It stands on Derrickson Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Bethany Beach quadrangle. 2,636 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Ocean View within Sussex County

On record in Ocean View

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ocean View grew from 1,882 to 2,636 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
20101,882
20202,636+754 (+40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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.

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ocean View in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 lightning, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 1998LightningOcean View1 hurtno account filed
August 2003LightningOcean View$100,000no account filed
August 2012LightningOcean View$50,000A lightning strike and ensuing fire caused extensive damage to a home on Inlet View Court in Bethany Beach. No injuries were reported.
May 2009LightningOcean View$40,000A lightning strike and ensuing fire sparked a garage and house fire on Oyster Shell Cove in Salt Pond in Baltimore Hundred. The garage was struck by lightning and the fire then spread to the home. Damage was estimated at $40,000. No injuries were reported.
July 2025Flash FloodOcean View-Flash flooding occurred along portions of SR 1 Coastal Hwy.
June 2021LightningOcean View-An outbuilding fire due to a lightning strike was reported on Oakwood Rd. Time estimated from dispatch calls.
June 2021LightningOcean View-Fire departments responded to a structure fire due to lightning on Oakwood Rd. Time estimated from dispatch calls.
July 2021Funnel CloudOcean View-A funnel cloud was reported north of Bethany Beach. This was likely the same funnel which would become a waterspout offshore, but there was no confirmation it ever touched down over land.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindOcean View-A mesonet site at Indian River Inlet measured a 50 knot wind gust.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindOcean View-Several trees down in the Millville and Pcean View Area. Time estimated from radar.
August 2013Flash FloodOcean View-Thunderstorms with heavy downpours caused flash flooding of small streams, fields as well as poor drainage flooding in southeastern Sussex County. Event precipitation totals included 4.13 inches in Bethany Beach, 3.80 inches in Selbyville and 3.50 inches in Gumboro.
August 2008Flash FloodOcean View-Thunderstorms with heavy downpours caused the flooding of Delaware State Route 1 on the south end of the Indian River Inlet Bridge. Other stream and poor drainage flooding occurred in Indian River Hundred and Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred. Doppler Radar storm total estimates reached between 3 and 6 inches across east central Sussex County with the highest estimates along the border between Indian River and Lewes and Rehoboth Hundreds.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOcean View-A severe thunderstorm knocked down several trees in Ocean View.

Every storm 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
Green Briar Court0.3 miles31
Meyle Estates0.4 miles31
Murrays Haven0.7 miles31
Ocean Way Estates0.7 miles31
Country Estates0.8 miles31
White Creek Manor1.0 miles31
Banks Harbor Estates1.0 miles31
Rogers Haven1.0 miles31

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 Ocean ViewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q755661The 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 214403. 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.

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.