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Sandtown, Delaware

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Central Kent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19943. It stands on Meredith Branch. The Survey maps it on the Marydel quadrangle. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Sandtown within Kent County

On record in Sandtown

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 28 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

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Sandtown between 1999 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use4.7 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest ServiceSTALLINGS
12 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
24 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sandtown: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clough and Caulk Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
L.D. Caulk PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandtown in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012Thunderstorm WindSandtown$50,000A gust front outrunning a cluster of severe thunderstorms entered near Sandtown in western Kent County at approximately 11:57 pm EDT on the 29th. This gust front produced damaging wind gusts estimated between 65 mph to 70 mph as it traversed eastward across the county. Within approximately 20 minutes of the gust front passage, a potent line of severe thunderstorms tracked eastward through Kent County, producing another round of destructive wind gusts, estimated from 65 mph to 70 mph. Large tree limbs were reported down across the county, including in Felton and Dover. In addition, several downed trees and an estimated wind gust to 70 mph were reported in Harrington. Severe thunderstorms exited eastern Kent County, including the town of Bowers, at approximately 1:10 am EDT on the 30th.
August 2020Flash FloodSandtown-A water rescue took place near the intersection of Mud Mill Road and Heron Circle in Marydel.
August 2020Tornado (EF1)Sandtown-The tornado touched down in the vicinity of Road 258 south of |Sandtown Road, then tracked across a section of mostly open fields|but damaged some trees along the way. It then tracked down the |western portion of Sandtown Road closer to Route 10 damaging |several homes and snapping and uprooting several trees. A home had|some windows blown out along with roof damage, another home had |its roof blown off and there was a large garage that had its back |sheet metal wall torn off. The tornado crossed Route 10 near the |intersection with Sandtown Road and moved across the Sandtown |Landfill facility where additional trees were uprooted or snapped,|two front-end loaders had windows blown out and some truck |trailers were flipped over. The tornado exited the landfill and |may have dissipated before reaching the Maryland-Delaware state |line. Doppler radar data showed rotation and a notable tornado |debris signature near and just northwest of Sandtown as debris was|tossed into the air.
May 2018FloodSandtown-The Greensboro gage along the Choptank River exceeded flood stage, due to 3 to 5 inches of rainfall over three days.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindSandtown-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 58 mph in Sandtown.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSandtown-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lords Corner1.3 miles28
Mahan2.2 miles28
Choptank Mills2.5 miles28
Edwardsville2.6 miles19
Schultie Crossroads2.8 miles19
Greens Corner3.6 miles19
Petersburg3.9 miles28
Smith Crossroads4.3 miles28

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 SandtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7416983The 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 216203. 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.

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.