Waples, Delaware

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Milford South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19968. It stands on North Prong. The Survey maps it on the Milton quadrangle.

Waples within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

1918 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1919 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Milton quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Milton quadrangle1:25000
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Milton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Milton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Waples between 1994 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2

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
9 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	GRAVEL FIRE
9 August 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
9 June 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 June 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	WOLF FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Waples Pond Acres	0.6 miles	22
Jefferson Crossroads	2.1 miles	22
Reynolds Mill	2.1 miles	22
Foord Landing	2.7 miles	22
Collins and Russell Development	2.8 miles	22
Smith Landing	2.9 miles	22
Milton	3.3 miles	22
Vaughn Landing	3.5 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216902. 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.