The Willows, 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 stands on Chapel Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle.

The Willows 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

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of The Willows between 1995 and 2020, burning about 47 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	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
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
5 April 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	7.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of The Willows: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lewes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Lochwood	0.9 miles	31
Marshtown	1.1 miles	31
Angola by the Bay	1.2 miles	31
Fox Hollow	1.2 miles	31
Woods Edge	1.3 miles	31
Beaver Dam Acres	1.4 miles	31
Herring Creek Estates	1.7 miles	31
Webb Landing	1.7 miles	31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215384. 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.