Viola, Delaware
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Central Kent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19979. The Survey maps it on the Wyoming quadrangle. 140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresViola fell from 157 to 140 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 157 | |
| 2020 | 140 | -17 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 29 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
- 1926 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:48000
- 1930 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500
- 1931 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 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 Wyoming quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Viola in 2019, burning about 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | STATONVILLE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Viola in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viola | - | Downed wires were reported near Felton. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viola | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viola Woods | 0.4 miles | 29 | |
| Canterbury | 0.9 miles | 29 | |
| Summerfield Village | 0.9 miles | 29 | |
| Plymouth | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Woodbury | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Oaknoll | 1.1 miles | 29 | |
| Hudson Trails | 1.2 miles | 29 | |
| Breezewood | 1.2 miles | 29 |
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 Viola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q755619 | The 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 214796. 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.














