BlockShady Rest Park, 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. The Survey maps it on the Harbeson quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 22 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.
- 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
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Shady Rest Park between 1995 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 5 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | DEEP FIRE |
| 4 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 August 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 25 June 2015 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | PRETTY FIRE |
| 4 April 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 27 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 24 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cool Spring Manor | 0.3 miles | 22 | |
| Cool Spring Farms | 0.7 miles | 22 | |
| Lazy Lake | 1.1 miles | 22 | |
| Cool Spring | 1.2 miles | 31 | |
| Harbeson | 1.3 miles | 22 | |
| Andersons Corner | 1.4 miles | 22 | |
| White Horse Farm | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Deerwood | 2.1 miles | 22 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215533. 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.