BlockWoodland Beach, 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 lies near Persimmon Hummock. The Survey maps it on the Bombay Hook Island quadrangle. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
On record in Woodland Beach
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Thomas Sutton Houselisted 1973
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 surveys from 35 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.
- 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
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Woodland Beach between 1997 and 2016, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 July 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | FISH |
| 20 June 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge | ENTRANCE |
| 18 March 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge | MISERY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland Beach in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodland Beach | - | Wires down around Hay Point Landing Road and Hawkey Branch Road. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodland Beach | - | Downed tree limbs and power lines were reported in the Woodland Beach area. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2011 | Flood | Woodland Beach | - | Flooding drowned several thousand chickens in Felton. Delaware State Route 6 was flooded in Smyrna and Delaware State Route 9 was flooded in Little Creek. Mirror Lake also flooded in Dover. Event rainfall totals included 10.08 inches in Marydel, 8.55 inches in Smyrna, 6.93 inches in Dover, 5.26 inches in Magnolia and 4.90 inches in Felton. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Woodland Beach | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylors Gut Landing | 2.2 miles | 32 | |
| Shorts Landing | 3.4 miles | 32 | |
| Dutch Neck Crossroads | 3.9 miles | 32 | |
| Hay Point Landing | 4.1 miles | 32 | |
| Duck Creek Landing | 4.9 miles | 32 | |
| Whitehall Crossroads | 5.1 miles | 32 | |
| Ravenwood | 5.3 miles | 32 | |
| Nandains Landing | 5.6 miles | 32 |
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 Woodland Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8032810 | 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 216417. 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.