Wisseman Acres, Delaware

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Milford South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19963. It stands on Johnson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle.

Wisseman Acres within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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 Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1919 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Wisseman Acres between 2002 and 2015, burning about 37 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
9 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 August 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Delaware Forest Service	FLEA FIRE
9 April 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
6 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	WHEAT FIRE
15 February 2004	Debris and open burning	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

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wisseman Acres: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Barber Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Barber Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stayton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Staytons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working 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
Lakewood	0.2 miles	21
The Heath	0.2 miles	21
Lakewood Development	0.2 miles	21
Stanley Manor	0.3 miles	21
Evergreen Acres	0.4 miles	21
Webb Manor	0.5 miles	21
Shawnee	1.1 miles	21
Freeman Corner	1.3 miles	21

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 Q122562054

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 216895. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.