West Beach, Delaware

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19939. It stands on Blackwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frankford quadrangle.

West Beach within Sussex County

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.

1918 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1938 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Rehoboth quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Frankford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of West Beach 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
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 July 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 June 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
13 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 April 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
5 April 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	7.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
7 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 March 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

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
Indian River Acres	0.0 miles	30
Sandy Landing	0.5 miles	30
Blackwater Beach	0.8 miles	30
Israel Haul	0.9 miles	30
Blackwater Village	1.4 miles	30
Fairway Villas	1.5 miles	30
Oak Orchard	1.5 miles	30
Bay Colony	1.6 miles	30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216244. 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.