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Pleasanton Acres, Delaware

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Dover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19901. It stands on Devious Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle.

Pleasanton Acres within Kent County

On record in Pleasanton Acres

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 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

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Pleasanton Acres between 1994 and 2007, burning about 2,597 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/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
23 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeSTEAM FIRE
4 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeKENTISLAND
14 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 March 1994Arson/incendiarism95 acresBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeSHEPRNEGUT
25 March 1995Arson/incendiarism2,000 acresBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeSTEAMBOAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pleasanton Acres: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tarburton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Tarburton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent 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
Persimmon Park Place0.9 miles29
Hilldale1.2 miles33
Cowgills Corner1.3 miles33
Oak Shadows1.4 miles33
Towne Point1.7 miles29
Hazelwood1.7 miles29
White Oak Farms1.7 miles29
Manchester Square1.9 miles29

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 Q122554428The 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 217442. 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.