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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.

Rehoboth Beach within Sussex County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Rehoboth 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,327
20201,108-219 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 31 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

1 since 2016

Regional 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 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
20 April 2016Debris and open burning16 acresDelaware Forest ServiceCOASTAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2002Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach1 killedno account filed
August 2001Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach1 killedno account filed
July 2001Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach20 hurtno account filed
July 2001Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach7 hurtno account filed
August 2001Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach5 hurtno account filed
August 2001LightningRehoboth Beach2 hurt, $10,000no account filed
June 2009LightningRehoboth Beach$250,000In 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 1998LightningRehoboth Beach$175,000no account filed
June 2005LightningRehoboth Beach$10,000no account filed
July 2008LightningRehoboth Beach$1,000A 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 2022Thunderstorm WindRehoboth 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 2017Heavy RainRehoboth Beach-Just under four inches of rain fell at this DEOS site.
September 2016FloodRehoboth Beach-Route 1 was closed due to flooding, rainfall and high tide both contributed.
September 2016Heavy RainRehoboth Beach-Just under 4 inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainRehoboth Beach-Just over three inches of rain fell.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindRehoboth Beach-A severe thunderstorm tore down large tree limbs and wires in Rehoboth Beach.
August 2008HailRehoboth Beach-Dime to nickel size hail fell in Rehoboth Beach.
August 2008HailRehoboth Beach-Nickel size hail fell at Rehoboth Beach.
September 2004Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach-no account filed
July 2002Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach-no account filed
September 2001Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach-no account filed
July 2000LightningRehoboth Beach-no account filed
August 1998WaterspoutRehoboth Beach-no account filed

Every storm 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
Henlopen Acres0.8 miles31
Washington Heights1.2 miles31
Silver Lake Shores1.2 miles31
Silver Lake Manor1.2 miles31
Spring Lake1.2 miles31
Rehoboth Manor1.2 miles31
Shockley Heights1.3 miles31
Dodds Addition1.3 miles31

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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q755106The 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.