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Piney Grove Manor, Delaware

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19947. It stands on Horse Pound Swamp Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Harbeson quadrangle. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Piney Grove Manor within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

19 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Piney Grove Manor between 2012 and 2019, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 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
Smoking6
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
3 September 2015Smoking1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSMOKE FIRE
3 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreDelaware Forest ServiceDEEP FIRE
28 September 2015Recreation and ceremony10 acresDelaware Forest ServiceWALMART FIRE
31 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSNAG FIRE
23 August 2015Smoking5.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceGODWIN FIRE
7 July 2012Smoking2.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2012Fireworks2.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2012Smokingunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Piney Grove1.2 miles19
Stockley1.6 miles22
Wood Branch1.7 miles22
Springfield Farms Addition2.6 miles22
Shortly2.8 miles19
Morris Mill2.9 miles22
Whaleys Corners3.2 miles19
Harlemtown3.3 miles19

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 Q7195622The 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 216784. 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.