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Warwick Park, Delaware

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19966. It stands on Warwick Gut. The Survey maps it on the Frankford quadrangle.

Warwick Park within Sussex County

On record in Warwick Park

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 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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.

Fires near this place

18 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Warwick Park between 2002 and 2012, burning about 13 acres 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 July 2004Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 June 2012Smoking1.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot named
12 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 April 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2012Misuse of fire by a minor7.0 acresDelaware Forest Servicenot 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 Warwick Park: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sussex Sand and Gravel Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gull Point0.2 miles30
Bullseye0.8 miles30
Riverdale1.0 miles30
Warwick1.2 miles30
Harmon1.3 miles30
Orchard Manor1.6 miles30
Indiantown Farms1.7 miles30
Israel Haul1.8 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215395. 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.