BlockRoxana, Delaware
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19945. The Survey maps it on the Selbyville quadrangle. It stands 30 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 25 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.
- 1901 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Roxana between 2010 and 2017, burning about 5 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | CYGNET LANE |
| 19 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | BEACH FIRE |
| 9 March 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | WELLS FIRE |
| 20 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Delaware Forest Service | CEDAR CREEK |
| 19 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | SPICER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxana in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxana | - | An unoccupied trailer was split in half by a fallen tree. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxana | - | A severe thunderstorm knocked down large tree limbs and wires and caused power outages in Roxana (Baltimore Hundred). |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxana | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Roxana | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beachwood | 0.6 miles | 25 | |
| Spring Brook Forest | 0.8 miles | 25 | |
| Hudson Crossroads | 1.2 miles | 25 | |
| Bayard | 2.0 miles | 30 | |
| Smithfield Acres | 2.1 miles | 25 | |
| Johnson | 2.2 miles | 25 | |
| Pine Manor Estates | 2.3 miles | 30 | |
| Bunting | 2.4 miles | 25 |
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 Roxana | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7372323 | 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 216200. 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.