BlockWestwoods, Delaware
19 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 19945. It stands on Cowhouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Whaleyville quadrangle. It stands 43 feet above sea level.
On record in Westwoods
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
West Woods Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 2007 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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.
- 1902 USGS Pittsville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1942 USGS Whaleysville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Whaleysville quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Whaleysville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Westwoods between 2010 and 2019, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2016 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | SIMPSON |
| 9 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | NEW HOPE RD |
| 19 July 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 27 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 24 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | GUMBORO |
| 28 February 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gumboro | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| Nentego Manor | 1.5 miles | 20 | |
| Shaft Ox Corner | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Lowes Crossroads | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Bethel | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Pepperbox | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Mission | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Whitesville | 3.9 miles | 18 |
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 Westwoods | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7989924 | 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 216245. 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.