BlockThe Shoals, Delaware
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19944. It lies near Cherrybush Island. The Survey maps it on the Assawoman Bay quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 surveys from 27 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 Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Assawoman Bay quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of The Shoals in 2010, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sea Dunes | 0.1 miles | 27 | |
| Seaside Villas | 0.2 miles | 27 | |
| Seatowne | 0.3 miles | 27 | |
| Queens Quest | 0.5 miles | 27 | |
| Kings Grant | 0.6 miles | 27 | |
| Fenwick Island | 1.0 miles | 27 | |
| Peppers Landing | 1.4 miles | 27 | |
| Mulberry Landing | 1.5 miles | 27 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215806. 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.