BlockVandyke, Delaware
30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Middletown-Odessa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19734. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle.
On record in Vandyke
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Vandyke-Heath Houselisted 1992 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 30 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.
- 1899 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1920 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000
- 1931 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000, 3 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
- 1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Dover quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Vandyke between 2007 and 2016, burning about 84 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.9 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 39 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 23 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | GOLTS CALDWELL ROAD |
| 27 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | GALENA EXIT RAMP 290 301 |
| 26 April 2016 | Smoking | 10 acres | Delaware Forest Service | SAWMILL |
| 29 March 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 14 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadow Vista | 2.4 miles | 29 | |
| Taylors Corner | 2.6 miles | 29 | |
| Dexter Corners | 2.9 miles | 30 | |
| Cedar Brae Farm | 3.4 miles | 30 | |
| Rose Valley Estates | 3.6 miles | 29 | |
| Forest | 3.6 miles | 30 | |
| Wiggins Mill | 3.8 miles | 29 | |
| Townsend | 3.8 miles | 29 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216237. 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.