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River-view Acres, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Laurel-Delmar census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19956. It stands on Tussocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sharptown quadrangle.

River-view Acres within Sussex County

On record in River-view 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

11 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of River-view Acres between 2005 and 2007, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
23 November 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Portsville0.3 miles19
Baileys Landing0.8 miles19
Broad Creek Estates0.9 miles20
White River Estates1.1 miles19
Tussock Pond1.7 miles19
Patty Cannon Estates2.1 miles19
Woodland2.8 miles19
Old Mill Acres2.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215330. 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.