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One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Homestead Hall
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.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 362 Grears Corner Rd., Townsend, 19734
- When was it listed? August 2018
- Category. building
- Census division. Middletown-Odessa
- National Register reference number. 100002770 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
8 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Homestead Hall between 2007 and 2016, burning about 74 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.9 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 39 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | GOLTS CALDWELL ROAD |
| 14 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 21 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 7 October 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 27 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 5 October 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 10 October 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
20 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Townsend, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain. 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 2006 | Lightning | Townsend | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Townsend | $1,000 | A severe thunderstorm knocked down a pole in Townsend. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Townsend | - | Multiple trees and wires blown down. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Townsend | - | A trained spotter reported a measured wind gust of 51 knots. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Townsend | - | Powerlines down due to thunderstorm winds.||NWS Note: Some meso circulations were noted in the area, a small probability of a tornado based on radar. No direct information to suggest this. |
| July 2017 | Flood | Townsend | - | Several fields in low-lying areas were flooded. |
| July 2017 | Flood | Townsend | - | Caldwell Corner Road was flooded. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Townsend | - | A daycare was flooded due to high water along with several vehicles being stuck as well. |
| July 2017 | Flood | Townsend | - | Dexter Corner road and Levels road flooded. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Townsend | - | Flash flooding on Wiggins Mill Rd near Wiggins Mill Pond. |
| July 2017 | Flood | Townsend | - | Portions of Green Giant Road washed out. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Townsend | - | Just over two and a half inches of rain fell. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Townsend | - | Numerous Trees and Wires down in and near Townsend. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Townsend | - | Heavy rainfall over 2 inches fell from thunderstorms. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Townsend | - | Nickel size hail fell in Townsend. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Townsend | - | A severe thunderstorm tore down a couple of trees in Townsend. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Townsend | - | A severe thunderstorm tore down large tree limbs and dropped penny size hail in Townsend. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Townsend | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Townsend | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Townsend | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Brook Ramble | 0.5 miles | 1992 |
 | Mayfield | 1.1 miles | 1997 |
 | Townsend Historic District | 2.3 miles | 1986 |
 | Arnold S. Naudain House | 2.4 miles | 1973 |
 | B. F. Hanson House | 2.6 miles | 1982 |
 | Vandyke-Heath House | 2.7 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002770 in Record Group 79. |
| New Castle County | All 411 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.