BlockWebb Landing, Delaware
30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Milford North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19963. It stands on Murderkill River. The Survey maps it on the Frederica quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 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 Vineland quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1919 USGS Vineland quadrangle1:125000
- 1934 USGS Bowers quadrangle1:48000
- 1936 USGS Bowers quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Frederica quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Frederica 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 Frederica quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Webb Landing between 2002 and 2015, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 April 2015 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | SCOTTS FIRE |
| 12 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | TOBERT FIRE |
| 23 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay View Heights | 0.7 miles | 30 | |
| South Bowers | 0.8 miles | 30 | |
| Bayview Heights | 1.0 miles | 30 | |
| Bowers Beach | 1.0 miles | 30 | |
| Warren Landing | 2.1 miles | 30 | |
| Bowers Landing | 2.8 miles | 30 | |
| Thompsonville | 3.2 miles | 21 | |
| Little Heaven | 3.4 miles | 30 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216243. 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.