Roesville, Delaware

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Felton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19943. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harrington quadrangle.

Roesville within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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 Harrington quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Roesville in 2019, burning about 1 acre 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
6 March 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	STATONVILLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Roesville: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Barber Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Barber Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stayton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Staytons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
William M. Killen Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
William M. Killen Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Scrap Tavern Crossroads	0.6 miles	29
Andrews Lake Estates	1.6 miles	29
Winmill	1.9 miles	29
Pickwick Acres	2.2 miles	29
Riverview	2.2 miles	29
Felton Manor	2.2 miles	29
Wooden Bridge	2.3 miles	29
Melvins Crossroads	2.3 miles	20

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 Q122553018

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 216793. 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.