Ward, Delaware

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Laurel-Delmar census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19940. It stands on Morris Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pittsville quadrangle. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Ward within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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.

1902 USGS Pittsville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1942 USGS Pittsville quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Pittsville quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Pittsville quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Pittsville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ward between 2006 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	520
3 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
7 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
3 June 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
7 March 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
4 November 2019	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	GOAT 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
Smith Hill	2.0 miles	19
Pepperbox	2.2 miles	18
Lowe	3.2 miles	20
Whitesville	3.3 miles	18
Whaleys Crossroads	3.5 miles	19
Pepper	3.9 miles	19
Little Acres	4.5 miles	19
Lowes Crossroads	4.6 miles	19

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 Ward	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7968916	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 216240. 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.