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Rogers Haven, Delaware

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19970. It stands on Derrickson Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Bethany Beach quadrangle.

Rogers Haven within Sussex County

On record in Rogers Haven

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 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Rogers Haven between 2002 and 2015, burning about 18 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
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 May 2015Smoking16 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSAVAGES FIRE
6 March 2002Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 November 2004Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot 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
Banks Harbor Estates0.2 miles31
Bank Harbor Retreat0.2 miles31
Club House Landing0.3 miles31
Piney Point0.5 miles31
Denton Manor0.6 miles31
White Creek Manor0.7 miles31
Murry Landing0.8 miles31
Green Briar Court0.8 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216679. 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.