Adams Home Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Adams Home Farm is a historic farm property at 15293 Adams Road, in rural Sussex County, Delaware, roughly midway between Greenwood and Bridgeville. The farm, recorded as 211 acres (85 ha) in size in 2015, contains one of the state's best-preserved farm complexes, with an evolutionary history spanning more than 100 years.”
Wikipedia article Adams Home Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 15293 Adams Rd., Greenwood, 19950
When was it listed? November 2015
Category. building
Census division. Bridgeville-Greenwood
National Register reference number. 14000532 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Adams Home Farm between 2015 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
12 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	CONCORD FIRE
12 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	CROP FIRE

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this property

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwood, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 7 heavy rain, 3 funnel cloud, 2 hail. 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 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	$100,000	A severe thunderstorm produced a swath of straight-line wind damage up to one-half mile wide in spots from southwestern Kent County into western Sussex County. Most of the wind damage occurred in Northwest Fork Hundred. Maximum wind gusts were estimated at 80 mph and caused property as well as substantial crop damage. One home sustained substantial damage. There was widespread crop damage from large hail.\|\|Wind damage in Sussex County started near County Route 16 near Blanchard. The most significant damage occurred parallel to McDowell Road east of Woodbridge Road. A porch roof was ripped away from a wood-framed farm house, and a steel antenna tower next to the house was bent. A tree near the house was blown down, and a large chicken barn near the house collapsed. Farther east, another steel antenna tower was bent, and some shingles were torn off the roof of a nearby house. \|\|Corn was stripped to the stalk on many fields within the damage swath, resulting in a total loss in some cases. Wheat and barely fields also suffered substantial damage. Crop losses mainly from hail could easily total several hundred thousand dollars. \|\|Tree damage was also noted in the town of Greenwood. Small to medium sized limbs were torn away along Minor Street in downtown Greenwood. Some lawn furniture was blown around, and streets and driveways were littered with leaves. Some funnel clouds were reported, but they did not touch down.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	$100,000	A line of showers was accompanied by damaging winds as it moved through Greenwood around 1 a.m. EST. A radio tower lost part of its antenna, siding was ripped away from a storage center and the price sign and roof of a gas station was damaged. No injuries were reported.
September 2007	Lightning	Greenwood	$25,000	A lightning strike caused an ensuing barn fire on a property on Sussex Highway in Greenwood. Damage was estimated at $25,000.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Greenwood	-	Flood waters reached at least 12 homes in Greenwood. The rising water was reported to have damaged 4 vehicles.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	Call Center reports a downed tree onto wires in Greenwood. Time estimated from radar.
August 2022	Heavy Rain	Greenwood	-	CWOP station EW7993 storm total rainfall near Georgetown.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	Reports of trees and wires down in Greenwood, DE. Time estimated from radar.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	Several reports of downed trees and wires northeast of Bridgeville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	Trees were downed in Greenwood. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	Several reports of downed power lines in the Greenwood area. Time estimated from radar.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	Two large trees were reported blown down.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	Several trees were downed in western Sussex County, resulting in power outages. Time estimated from radar.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	Two trees were reported down on Scotts Store Rd. Time estimated from radar.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Greenwood	-	About four and a half inches of rain fell at this DEOS.
June 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Greenwood	-	Radar data indicated a rotation \|signature which intensified for a time as an outflow boundary \|settled southeastward and interacted with this storm. The radar \|was scanning within 600 feet above ground level, with even\|evidence of a tornado debris signature in the dual-pol data. A \|tornado touched down between Nanticoke River and the intersection \|of Sugar Hill Road and St. Johnstown Road, and tracked \|northeastward for about 0.6 miles before lifting. There was \|significant damage to a farm, with a couple of small barns \|destroyed with a lot of debris lofted and blown far across an \|adjacent field. Several trees were snapped or blown over along \|with damage to a few nearby power poles and wires. A large \|unoccupied chicken coup, about 200 feet in length, was lifted and \|moved several feet off its foundation with some metal roof panels \|on the north end were twisted in a southerly direction. Across the\|street from the farm on Sugar Hill Road, a couple sections of \|large central pivot irrigation systems were lifted and tipped onto\|their side. Each section of the irrigation weighs about 8800 pounds.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Greenwood	-	Just over four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Greenwood	-	Just over five inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Greenwood	-	Just over five inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Greenwood	-	Five inches of rain fell.
June 2009	Hail	Greenwood	-	A severe thunderstorm also produced large hail west of Greenwood in Sussex County. There was widespread crop damage from large hail. The hail caused corn to be stripped to the stalk. Wheat and barely fields also suffered substantial damage. Crop losses could easily total several hundred thousand dollars. In the nearby garden, strawberry plants were pulverized by the hail. The most significant hail damage occurred parallel to McDowell Road east of Woodbridge Road. Hail size was estimated.
June 2009	Funnel Cloud	Greenwood	-	A funnel cloud was sighted during a severe thunderstorm in northwest Sussex County. A National Weather Service damage survey indicated that all of the wind damage was straight line and that the funnel did not touch the ground.
January 2007	Heavy Rain	Greenwood	-	Precipitation totals in Sussex County included 2.07 inches in Millsboro, 1.92 inches in Redden, 1.87 inches in Prime Hook and 1.81 inches in Georgetown.
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	no account filed
July 2006	Funnel Cloud	Greenwood	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	no account filed
June 1998	Funnel Cloud	Greenwood	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Greenwood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sussex County

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 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Ricards House-Linden Hall	0.8 miles	1982
Richards Historic District	2.1 miles	1983
Sudler House	2.1 miles	1974
Bridgeville Public Library	2.4 miles	1990
Old Bridgeville Fire House	2.5 miles	1984
Bridgeville Historic District	2.6 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000532 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.