Penn Acres South, Delaware

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the New Castle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19720. It stands on Army Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington South quadrangle.

Penn Acres South within New Castle County

On record in Penn Acres South

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 4 records

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

Penn Farm of the Trustees of the New Castle Commonlisted 1997 · 0.5 miles away
Air Service, Inc. Hangar at Bellanca Airfieldlisted 2005 · 0.7 miles away
Florence and Isaac Budovitch Houselisted 2020 · 0.9 miles away
Parker's Dairy Palacelisted 2019 · 0.9 miles away

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.

1904 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1919 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Wilmington South quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
1967 USGS Wilmington South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Wilmington South quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Wilmington South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Penn Acres South between 1998 and 2017, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
22 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 April 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named
18 December 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named
30 November 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 November 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 November 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Penn Acres South: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
New Castle Plant C-E Minerals	Aluminum	Plant
Delaware Brick Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Delaware Brick Co. Pit and Mill	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Clemente Sand Wash	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Constructors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Route 40 Farm	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Wilmington Manor Gardens	0.4 miles	33
Basin Corner	0.4 miles	33
Stockton	0.5 miles	33
Penn Acres	0.6 miles	33
Wilmington Manor	0.9 miles	33
Manor Park	1.0 miles	33
Hares Corner	1.0 miles	33
Washington Park	1.0 miles	33

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 Q122589537

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 215699. 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.