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Woodcrest Estates, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Millsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19947. The Survey maps it on the Trap Pond quadrangle.

Woodcrest Estates within Sussex County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Woodcrest Estates between 2005 and 2016, burning about 161 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 April 2016Smoking1.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceBAKERMILL
22 April 2015Other causesunder an acreDelaware Forest ServiceHOUSE FIRE
13 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresBlackwater National Wildlife RefugeMILLSBORO FIRE

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Jones Crossroads0.7 miles19
Bryans Store1.5 miles19
Shortly2.1 miles19
Hitchens Crossroads2.3 miles19
Hardscrabble2.5 miles19
Sycamore3.0 miles19
Piney Grove3.2 miles19
Pusey Crossroads3.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 215415. 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.