Whitehall Landing, Delaware

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Smyrna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19977. It stands on Muddy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bombay Hook Island quadrangle.

Whitehall Landing within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 35 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.

1890 USGS Bay Side quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Bay Side quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1899 USGS Vineland quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1919 USGS Vineland quadrangle1:125000
1931 USGS Bay Side quadrangle1:62500
1931 USGS Shiloh quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Shiloh quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Bombay Hook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Bombay Hook quadrangle1:24000, 4 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 Bombay Hook Island quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Whitehall Landing between 1992 and 2007, burning about 2,723 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
23 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	STEAM FIRE
20 June 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	ENTRANCE
6 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	120 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	RAYMONDGUT
17 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	500 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	KENTISLAND
31 March 1994	Arson/incendiarism	95 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	SHEPRNEGUT
25 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2,000 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	STEAMBOAT
18 March 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	MISERY
1 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent 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
Leipsic	2.2 miles	29
Whitehall Crossroads	2.7 miles	32
Nandains Landing	2.8 miles	32
Dutch Neck Crossroads	3.2 miles	32
Hazelwood	3.4 miles	29
Donas Landing	3.6 miles	33
Pleasanton Acres	3.8 miles	29
Cowgills Corner	3.8 miles	33

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.

Wikidata item Q122549951

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 216413. 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.