Sand Hill, Delaware

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Milton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19968. It stands on Dutton Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Harbeson quadrangle.

Sand Hill within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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.

1917 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Harbeson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1944 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Harbeson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Harbeson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

35 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Sand Hill between 2002 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 were 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	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
9 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	GRAVEL FIRE
9 September 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
3 September 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SMOKE FIRE
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	DEEP FIRE
28 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Delaware Forest Service	WALMART FIRE
6 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
31 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SNAG FIRE
20 August 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rogers Development	2.2 miles	22
Saulsbury Switch	2.3 miles	22
Bowdens Garage (historical)	2.5 miles	22
Greenlea Acres	2.5 miles	22
Gravel Hill	2.7 miles	22
Murrays Development	2.7 miles	19
Bennum	2.8 miles	22
Harlemtown	3.0 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216202. 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.