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Stockley, Delaware

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Millsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19947. It stands on Alms House Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Harbeson quadrangle. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Stockley within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Stockley between 2012 and 2020, burning about 29 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.

Reported cause Fires
Smoking6
Debris and open burning5
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2015Smoking1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSMOKE FIRE
3 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreDelaware Forest ServiceDEEP FIRE
31 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceSNAG FIRE
23 August 2015Smoking5.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceGODWIN FIRE
7 July 2012Smoking2.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2012Fireworks2.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2012Smokingunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2012Natural5.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

17 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockley in 17 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 12 heavy rain, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2026Thunderstorm WindStockley-Peterkins Road is closed from Evergreen Drive to Haven Drive due to trees and wires down in the road. Time estimated from radar.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindStockley-Power poles and wires were downed near Morris Mill Rd. Time estimated from radar.
June 2018Flash FloodStockley-There was roadway flooding and a number of road closures in and around Georgetown, including Kruger Road between US Route 113 and Breasure Road.
July 2017Heavy RainStockley-Just over three inches of rain fell at this DEOS site.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Just over nine inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Six inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Six inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Just over six inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Just over six inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Six and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Six and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Just under seven inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Just over eight inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Five and three quarters inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainStockley-Five and three quarters of an inch of rain fell.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindStockley-A severe thunderstorm knocked down a tree and large tree limbs along Morris Mill Road in Millsboro.
July 2013Flash FloodStockley-Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flash flooding of roadways and small streams from Dagsboro northwestward toward Georgetown. High water was reported on Hardscrabble Road (Delaware State Route 20), Shortly Road, Kendall Street and Laurel Road (Delaware State Route 24). Event precipitation totals included 4.20 inches in Stockley and 3.70 inches in Georgetown.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Morris Mill1.2 miles22
Piney Grove Manor1.6 miles22
Wood Branch2.1 miles22
Zoar2.3 miles22
Gran-ville2.3 miles22
Mount Joy2.4 miles22
Kawan Acres2.5 miles22
Piney Grove2.6 miles19

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on StockleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7618119The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216228. 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.

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.