Shady Ridge, Delaware

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Dodd Homesteadlisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1918 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Rehoboth Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Rehoboth Beach quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Rehoboth Beach quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Rehoboth Beach quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Shady Ridge between 1995 and 2016, burning about 16 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Aspen Meadows
• Beachfield
• Breezewood
• Carpenters Corner
• Fieldwood Addition
• Maplewood

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shady Ridge: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Sussex County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215452. 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.