Selbyville, 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 19975. It stands on Polly Branch. The Survey maps it on the Selbyville quadrangle. 2,878 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 36 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSelbyville grew from 2,167 to 2,878 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,167 | |
| 2020 | 2,878 | +711 (+33%) |
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 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Selbyville between 2016 and 2017, burning about 6 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 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2016 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | SIMPSON |
| 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
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Selbyville in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 4 heavy rain, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Lightning | Selbyville | $5,000 | A lightning strike and ensuing fire damaged a home on Waterford Lane in Selbyville. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selbyville | - | Wires were downed near the intersection of Bethany Rd and S Main St. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Selbyville | - | Around three inches of rain fell. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Selbyville | - | A Storm Total Rainfall of 2.28 inches was measured 7 miles east of Selbyville, DE at 6:00 AM on 8/30. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Selbyville | - | Three inches of rain was measured. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Selbyville | - | Just over five inches of rain fell. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selbyville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selbyville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smithfield Acres | 1.6 miles | 25 | |
| Hudson Crossroads | 2.8 miles | 25 | |
| Bunting | 3.5 miles | 25 | |
| Roxana | 3.7 miles | 25 | |
| Frankford | 4.0 miles | 30 | |
| Beachwood | 4.1 miles | 25 | |
| Spring Brook Forest | 4.3 miles | 25 | |
| Johnson | 4.5 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 Selbyville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q755625 | 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 214630. 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.














