Primehook Beach, Delaware

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Milford South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19963. It lies near Hay Hummock. The Survey maps it on the Lewes quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Primehook Beach within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 27 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.

1918 USGS Cape Henlopen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1937 USGS Cape Henlopen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Cape Henlopen quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Lewes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Primehook Beach between 1994 and 2017, burning about 51 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	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
5 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNITIINO4
13 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	FIELD 2 03
9 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	DE PHR FY17 WF FOWLER ROAD
27 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT II
18 March 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT 29401
16 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNITIINO3
16 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNITIINO2
23 February 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT11NO1

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
Foord Landing	1.6 miles	22
Broadkill Beach	2.5 miles	27
Wiltbank Landing	3.2 miles	27
Robertson Landing	3.5 miles	27
Hazzard Landing	3.5 miles	27
Steamboat Landing	3.9 miles	27
Waples	4.0 miles	22
Waples Pond Acres	4.2 miles	22

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.

Wikipedia article on Primehook Beach	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24883340	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 214495. 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.