Piney Grove, Delaware

19 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. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Piney Grove within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1917 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 3 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 Georgetown quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Piney Grove between 2005 and 2015, burning about 188 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
Smoking	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
3 September 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SMOKE FIRE
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	DEEP FIRE
31 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SNAG FIRE
23 August 2015	Smoking	5.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	GODWIN FIRE
7 July 2012	Smoking	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
6 July 2012	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
6 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
19 July 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	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
Piney Grove Manor	1.2 miles	22
Shortly	1.7 miles	19
Stockley	2.6 miles	22
Whaleys Corners	2.7 miles	19
Wood Branch	2.8 miles	22
Bryans Store	2.9 miles	19
Woodcrest Estates	3.2 miles	19
Flea Hill	3.4 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.

Wikidata item Q7195620

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 216183. 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.