Monroe Park, Delaware

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Piedmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19807. It lies near Holly Island. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington North quadrangle.

Monroe Park within New Castle County

On record in Monroe Park

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 within a mile 7 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Brindley Farmlisted 1976 · 0.2 miles away
Holladay-Harrington Houselisted 2004 · 0.2 miles away
St. Joseph's on the Brandywinelisted 1976 · 0.4 miles away
Breck's Mill Arealisted 1971 · 0.8 miles away
Breck's Mill Area-Henry Clay Village Historic District (Boundary Decrease)listed 1988 · 0.8 miles away
Walker's Mill and Walker's Banklisted 1972 · 0.9 miles away
Breck's Mill Area-Henry Clay Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1988 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 35 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.

1901 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1943 USGS West Chester quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
1967 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Wilmington North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Monroe Park between 2003 and 2005, burning about 3 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/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
22 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 April 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 November 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Monroe Park: 2 plants, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.	Chromium	Past Producer
Fairville Mica Occurrence	Mica	Occurrence
Wilmington Plant Dupont	Titanium	Plant
Wilmington Plantozark-Mahoning	Fluorine-Fluorite	Plant

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this place

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroe Park in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Monroe Park	2 hurt	Live local news coverage report of 2 people rushed to hospital after tree fell onto a home in Wilmington. Time estimated. Exact location not known.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Monroe Park	$10,000	Flash flooding was reported in Wilmington. A water rescue was needed on M.L.K. Jr. Blvd.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Monroe Park	-	Pictures sent in of damage to vehicles and large limbs down. Time estimated from radar.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Monroe Park	-	Report of tree down in North Wilmington on social media. Time estimated via radar.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Monroe Park	-	Trees and wires were downed near the intersection of West Second St and North Adams St. Time estimated from radar.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Monroe Park	-	Flash flooding resulted in the need for a water rescue on East Front Street in Wilmington.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Monroe Park	-	A large tree was completely uprooted by thunderstorm winds onto a road in the Richardson park area.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Monroe Park	-	In addition to the tornado wind damage in the area, the parent severe thunderstorm knocked down large tree limbs and wires along Delaware State Route 9 between Lambson Lane and Terminal Avenue.
August 2004	Lightning	Monroe Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Castle 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
Greenville Place	0.0 miles	35
Montchan	0.4 miles	35
Fairthorne	0.4 miles	35
Greenville	0.5 miles	35
Greenville Manor	0.6 miles	35
Nanticoke Farms	0.6 miles	35
Westover Hills	0.7 miles	35
Greenville Development	0.8 miles	35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 214332. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.