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One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Godwin School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 23235 Godwin School Rd., Millsboro, 19966
- When was it listed? July 2018
- Category. building
- Census division. Millsboro
- National Register reference number. 100002658 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Godwin School between 2005 and 2015, burning about 174 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2015 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | GODWIN FIRE |
| 7 July 2012 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2012 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
| 13 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 160 acres | Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge | MILLSBORO FIRE |
| 27 October 2012 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Delaware Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
20 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millsboro, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Lightning | Millsboro | $1,000 | no account filed |
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millsboro | $500 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines across the town. |
| August 1994 | Hail | Millsboro | $50 | Dime-sized hail fell east of Millsboro on Route 24. The hail was reported by Delaware Emergency Management Agency. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millsboro | - | A few reports of trees and power lines down across Millsboro. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millsboro | - | A tree was downed across Gravel Hill Rd and Doc Frame Rd. |
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millsboro | - | A tree fell onto the roof of a home on River Dr. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millsboro | - | Power lines were reported down near Millsboro. Time of event estimated from radar. |
| September 2016 | Flood | Millsboro | - | Roadway flooding at the intersection of routes 113 and 26. Flooding also along route 20 and other spots on 113. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millsboro | - | Trees downed from thunderstorm winds in the Stormwater Creek Development. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Millsboro | - | A thunderstorm dropped penny size hail in Millsboro. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millsboro | - | A severe thunderstorm knocked trees down in the Millsboro area around 855 AM EDT on June 25th. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millsboro | - | A severe thunderstorm tore down several large tree limbs in Millsboro. |
| August 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Millsboro | - | A funnel cloud was noticed over Millsboro. It did not touch down or cause any damage. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Millsboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Millsboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Millsboro | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millsboro | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Millsboro | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millsboro | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Millsboro | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warren's Mill | 2.4 miles | 1978 | |
| Perry-Shockley House | 3.0 miles | 1985 | |
 | Burton-Blackstone-Carey Store | 3.0 miles | 2014 |
| Carey's Camp Meeting Ground | 3.1 miles | 1973 | |
 | Pepper, Carlton, David, Farm | 5.0 miles | 1979 |
 | Stella Pepper Gyles House | 5.3 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002658 in Record Group 79. |
| Sussex County | All 136 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.