Woodland, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seaford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19973. It stands on Turtle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sharptown quadrangle. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Woodland within Sussex County

On record in Woodland

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

Cannon's Ferrylisted 1973

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1915 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Sharptown quadrangle1:24000, 2 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 Sharptown quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Woodland between 2004 and 2019, burning about 117 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
9 July 2004	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge	WOODLAND CHURCH RD.
22 June 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
8 March 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
8 March 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
9 February 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
31 December 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	COKESBURY ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 tornado. 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
May 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Woodland	-	On Friday May 16th, an EF-1 tornado occurred beginning in Dorchester County, Maryland before crossing into Sussex County, Delaware. While the tornado was in Sussex County, tree damage occurred in Phillips Landing Park. A tree was snapped and twisted near the base of its trunk with additional tree damage in the Cherry Walk Woods neighborhood and along Phillips Landing Road. Additional trees were damaged along Shell Bridge Road with a tree snapped near the intersection with Phillips Landing Road. Several large limbs were also downed near Broad Creek, south-southwest of Bethel. The tornado dissipated in this area.

Every storm 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
Patty Cannon Estates	0.9 miles	19
Old Mill Acres	0.9 miles	19
Craigs Mill	1.9 miles	19
Baileys Landing	2.1 miles	19
Woodland Station	2.3 miles	19
White River Estates	2.5 miles	19
Nanticoke Estates	2.5 miles	20
Hill N Dale	2.6 miles	20

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	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8032796	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 216257. 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.