Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lewes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19971. It stands on Holland Glade. The Survey maps it on the Rehoboth Beach quadrangle. 1,108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.
On record in Rehoboth Beach
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 4 records
All Saints' Episcopal Churchlisted 1991
Peter Marsh Houselisted 1977
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountainlisted 2009- Dodd Homesteadlisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresRehoboth Beach fell from 1,327 to 1,108 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,327 | |
| 2020 | 1,108 | -219 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 31 printed sheetsMatched 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 Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Rehoboth Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rehoboth Beach quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Rehoboth Beach quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Rehoboth Beach quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rehoboth Beach in 2016, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Delaware Forest Service | COASTAL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rehoboth Beach in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 8 rip current, 6 lightning, 3 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 deaths and 34 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Rip Current | Rehoboth Beach | 1 killed | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Rip Current | Rehoboth Beach | 1 killed | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Rip Current | Rehoboth Beach | 20 hurt | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Rip Current | Rehoboth Beach | 7 hurt | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Rip Current | Rehoboth Beach | 5 hurt | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Lightning | Rehoboth Beach | 2 hurt, $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Lightning | Rehoboth Beach | $250,000 | In Rehoboth Beach, a lightning strike and ensuing fire caused about an estimated $250,000 in damage to a house on Coventry Lane in the Rehoboth Beach Yacht and Country Club development. Lightning apparently struck the attic of the home. Six fire companies fought the blaze. |
| August 1998 | Lightning | Rehoboth Beach | $175,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Lightning | Rehoboth Beach | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Lightning | Rehoboth Beach | $1,000 | A lightning strike around Silver Lake caused about 600 homes and businesses to instantaneously lose power in Rehoboth Beach. The power surge then affected transformers in the area and an additional 2,000 homes and businesses lost power in Rehoboth Beach. Smoke from one transformer forced the evacuation of the Star of the Sea Condominium. All power was restored by 1038 p.m. EDT that evening. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rehoboth Beach | - | Report from Rehoboth Beach. Emergency Management reports numerous trees uprooted, large tree limbs down, and power outages mainly across the southern side of town. Notably impacted areas were New Castle Street, Scarborough Avenue, Park Avenue, and Hickman Street. Time estimated via radar. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Rehoboth Beach | - | Just under four inches of rain fell at this DEOS site. |
| September 2016 | Flood | Rehoboth Beach | - | Route 1 was closed due to flooding, rainfall and high tide both contributed. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Rehoboth Beach | - | Just under 4 inches of rain fell. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Rehoboth Beach | - | Just over three inches of rain fell. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rehoboth Beach | - | A severe thunderstorm tore down large tree limbs and wires in Rehoboth Beach. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Rehoboth Beach | - | Dime to nickel size hail fell in Rehoboth Beach. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Rehoboth Beach | - | Nickel size hail fell at Rehoboth Beach. |
| September 2004 | Rip Current | Rehoboth Beach | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Rip Current | Rehoboth Beach | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Rip Current | Rehoboth Beach | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Lightning | Rehoboth Beach | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Waterspout | Rehoboth Beach | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henlopen Acres | 0.8 miles | 31 | |
| Washington Heights | 1.2 miles | 31 | |
| Silver Lake Shores | 1.2 miles | 31 | |
| Silver Lake Manor | 1.2 miles | 31 | |
| Spring Lake | 1.2 miles | 31 | |
| Rehoboth Manor | 1.2 miles | 31 | |
| Shockley Heights | 1.3 miles | 31 | |
| Dodds Addition | 1.3 miles | 31 |
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 Rehoboth Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q755106 | 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 214535. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.













