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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.

Selbyville within Sussex County

Population over time

2 figures

Selbyville 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,167
20202,878+711 (+33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 25 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

5 since 2016

Regional 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 burning3
Smoking2

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
15 August 2016Smoking1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSIMPSON
19 June 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceBEACH FIRE
9 March 2017Smokingunder an acreDelaware Forest ServiceWELLS FIRE
20 February 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresDelaware Forest ServiceCEDAR CREEK
19 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreDelaware Forest ServiceSPICER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012LightningSelbyville$5,000A lightning strike and ensuing fire damaged a home on Waterford Lane in Selbyville.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSelbyville-Wires were downed near the intersection of Bethany Rd and S Main St. Time estimated from radar.
August 2017Heavy RainSelbyville-Around three inches of rain fell.
August 2017Heavy RainSelbyville-A Storm Total Rainfall of 2.28 inches was measured 7 miles east of Selbyville, DE at 6:00 AM on 8/30.
July 2017Heavy RainSelbyville-Three inches of rain was measured.
September 2016Heavy RainSelbyville-Just over five inches of rain fell.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSelbyville-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindSelbyville-no account filed

Every storm 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
Smithfield Acres1.6 miles25
Hudson Crossroads2.8 miles25
Bunting3.5 miles25
Roxana3.7 miles25
Frankford4.0 miles30
Beachwood4.1 miles25
Spring Brook Forest4.3 miles25
Johnson4.5 miles25

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 SelbyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q755625The 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.