Shell Landing, Delaware

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lewes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19958. It lies near Horse Island. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle.

Shell Landing within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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.

1918 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Shell Landing between 1995 and 2020, burning about 63 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 July 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 June 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
12 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 May 2015	Smoking	16 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SAVAGES FIRE
13 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
The Woods on Herring Creek	0.3 miles	31
Sloan Landing	0.8 miles	31
Bookhammer Landing	0.8 miles	31
Ben Robins Landing	1.1 miles	31
Herring Landing	1.1 miles	31
Greens Landing	1.4 miles	31
John Marsh Landing	1.5 miles	31
Old Landing	1.6 miles	31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216451. 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.