Silverbrook, Delaware

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.

• 1901 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1943 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1967 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1993 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Silverbrook between 2003 and 2005, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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.

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:

• Lancaster Court
• West Park
• Barley Woods
• Lancaster Village
• Scarborough Park
• Silver Springs

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Silverbrook: 2 plants, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 New Castle County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silverbrook in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in New Castle 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 214651. 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.

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.