BlockWilliamsville, Delaware
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Selbyville-Frankford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19975. It stands on Buntings Branch. The Survey maps it on the Selbyville quadrangle. It stands 30 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 25 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.
- 1901 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ocean City quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Selbyville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Williamsville between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | CYGNET LANE |
| 21 April 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | WELLS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamsville in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 1 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Williamsville | $50,000 | Thunderstorms with very heavy rain led to flash flooding from Selbyville east in southern Sussex County. A few roads were closed and sections of Lighthouse and Sand Cove Roads collapsed. Event precipitation totals included 5.50 inches in Selbyville. |
| August 2017 | Flood | Williamsville | - | A pond and stream overflowed which flooded a large portion of a yard. |
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 Estates | 0.3 miles | 25 | |
| Fenwick West | 1.0 miles | 27 | |
| Johnson | 1.1 miles | 25 | |
| Bunting | 1.1 miles | 25 | |
| Keenwik Sound | 1.6 miles | 27 | |
| Magnolia Shores | 1.6 miles | 27 | |
| Keenwik West | 1.9 miles | 27 | |
| Teaberry Woods | 2.0 miles | 27 |
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 Williamsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8021317 | 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 216251. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.