Pencader Farms, Delaware

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Glasgow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19701. The Survey maps it on the Elkton quadrangle.

Pencader Farms within New Castle County

On record in Pencader Farms

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 1 record

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

Poplar Halllisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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.

1898 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1917 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Pencader Farms between 2005 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
21 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
19 March 2006	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
18 March 2015	Arson/incendiarism	9.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
18 March 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
18 March 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	13 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Frasers Corner	1.0 miles	34
Shelley Farms	1.2 miles	34
Goose Point	1.8 miles	34
Melody Meadows	1.8 miles	32
Marabou Meadows	1.8 miles	32
Melody Meadows II	2.2 miles	32
Woodside Manor	2.4 miles	32
Little Jersey	2.5 miles	32

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.

Wikidata item Q122566298

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 215646. 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.