Wrights Crossroads, Delaware

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Dover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19953. The Survey maps it on the Kenton quadrangle. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Wrights Crossroads within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 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.

1899 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1906 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1920 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000
1926 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500
1931 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Kenton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
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 Kenton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Wrights Crossroads between 2005 and 2020, burning about 14 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	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
10 July 2007	Natural	1.1 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
24 June 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
17 May 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
10 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent 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
Slaughter	1.0 miles	29
Hartly	1.5 miles	29
Rehak	1.6 miles	29
Bethesda	2.2 miles	29
Oak Forest Estates	2.7 miles	29
Davis Corner	2.7 miles	29
Marydel	2.8 miles	28
Green Briar	3.0 miles	29

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 Wrights Crossroads	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29006855	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 216259. 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.