Wood Branch, Delaware

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19947. It stands on McGee Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Harbeson quadrangle. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Wood Branch within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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.

1917 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Harbeson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1944 USGS Millsboro quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Harbeson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Harbeson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

23 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Wood Branch between 2010 and 2020, burning about 42 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	6
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	1
Other causes	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
3 September 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SMOKE FIRE
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	DEEP FIRE
28 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Delaware Forest Service	WALMART FIRE
31 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SNAG FIRE
20 August 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
7 July 2012	Smoking	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
6 July 2012	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
6 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	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
Springfield Farms Addition	1.2 miles	22
Piney Grove Manor	1.7 miles	22
Harlemtown	1.8 miles	19
Georgetown	2.1 miles	19
Stockley	2.1 miles	22
Greenlea Acres	2.3 miles	22
Bowdens Garage (historical)	2.3 miles	22
Rogers Development	2.3 miles	22

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 Wood Branch	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8032164	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 216255. 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.