BlockSpring Brook Forest, 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 19945. It stands on Agricultural Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Selbyville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 25 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.
- 1901 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Spring Brook Forest between 2010 and 2017, burning about 5 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 burning | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | CYGNET LANE |
| 19 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | BEACH FIRE |
| 9 March 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | WELLS FIRE |
| 20 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Delaware Forest Service | CEDAR CREEK |
| 19 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | SPICER |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beachwood | 0.2 miles | 25 | |
| Roxana | 0.8 miles | 25 | |
| Bayard | 1.2 miles | 30 | |
| Hudson Crossroads | 1.6 miles | 25 | |
| Johnson | 1.6 miles | 25 | |
| Pine Manor Estates | 1.7 miles | 30 | |
| Oak Acres | 2.2 miles | 27 | |
| Bunting | 2.2 miles | 25 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215335. 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.