Woodbrook, Delaware

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Brandywine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19803. It stands on Willow Run. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington North quadrangle. It stands 338 feet above sea level.

Woodbrook within New Castle County

On record in Woodbrook

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 5 records

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

William Young Houselisted 1982 · 0.4 miles away
Mount Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 1984 · 0.6 miles away
House at 901 Mt. Lebanon Rd.listed 2017 · 0.7 miles away
Rockland Historic Districtlisted 1972 · 0.9 miles away
Louvierslisted 1971 · 0.9 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

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Woodbrook: 3 plants, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Titanium, Pigment. 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	Recorded
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.	Chromium	Past Producer
Edgemoor Plant Ti	Titanium, Pigment	Plant	1956
Fairville Mica Occurrence	Mica	Occurrence
Wilmington Plant Dupont	Titanium	Plant
Wilmington Plantozark-Mahoning	Fluorine-Fluorite	Plant

Every working 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
Edenridge	0.4 miles	35
Fairfax Farms	0.4 miles	35
Sharpley	0.4 miles	35
Rockland	0.8 miles	35
McDaniel Heights	0.8 miles	35
Tavistock	0.8 miles	35
Blue Rock Manor	0.8 miles	35
Fairfax	0.9 miles	35

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 Woodbrook	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8032431	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 217094. 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.

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.