Owens, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Bridgeville-Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19950. It stands on Crony Pond Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle. It stands 52 feet above sea level.

Owens within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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 Harrington quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Greenwood 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 Greenwood quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Owens between 2002 and 2019, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
5 September 2016	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	FLEATOWN
3 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
12 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 May 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 May 2015	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SMITH FIRE
20 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	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
Oakley	2.0 miles	20
Saint Johnstown	2.6 miles	19
Staytonville	3.1 miles	19
Hickory Ridge	3.2 miles	19
Greenwood Gardens	3.4 miles	19
Greenwood	3.5 miles	19
Deer Creek	3.5 miles	19
Newton Woods	4.4 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.

Wikipedia article on Owens	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7114744	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 216172. 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.