Photograph of New Castle Court House — Photograph by Pknelson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

New Castle County Court House

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The New Castle Court House Museum is the center of a circle with a 12-mile radius that defines most of the border between the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania and parts of the borders between Delaware and New Jersey and Maryland.”
Wikipedia article New Castle Court House Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Delaware St., between 2nd and 3rd Sts., New Castle, 19720
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. building
Census division. New Castle
National Register reference number. 72000285 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of New Castle County Court House between 1992 and 2017, burning about 222 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 May 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90 acres	Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge	MESSYONUS
21 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named
19 April 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named
9 March 2014	Other causes	under an acre	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named
25 March 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge	MILLCREEK2
24 March 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge	MILLCREEK1
18 December 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named
16 November 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of New Castle County Court House: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aluminum. 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
New Castle Plant C-E Minerals	Aluminum	Plant
Delaware Brick Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Delaware Brick Co. Pit and Mill	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Clemente Sand Wash	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Constructors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Castle, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	New Castle	-	Report of small to medium sized branches down in Old New Castle. Time estimated from radar.
December 2023	Flood	New Castle	-	Across southeast Pennsylvania and northern Delaware, flooding occurred on the Brandywine River, the Schuylkill River, the Christina River, Red Clay Creek, and White Clay Creek. The Coochs Bridge gauge crested at 12.2 ft. The Langhorne gauge crested at 13.59 ft. The Downingtown gauge crested at 10.94 ft. The Newark gauge crested at 14.45 ft. The Chadds Ford gauge crested at 12.18 ft. The Wooddale gauge crested at 8.58 ft. The Graterford gauge crested at 16.30 ft. The Chester gauge crested at 11.87 ft. The Philadelphia gauge crested at 11.82 ft. The Pottstown gauge crested at 13.92. The Norristown gauge crested at 15.85. The Langhorne gauge crested at 13.59 ft. The Wilmington gauge crested at 17.08 ft. All of these crests are above flood stage.\|\|Flooding was reported along old Airport Road close to the Christina River.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	New Castle	-	Wires were downed near Second St. Time estimated from radar.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	New Castle	-	A tree was taken down due to thunderstorm wind gusts and fell onto a car located on Edinburg drive.
June 2015	Hail	New Castle	-	Large hail fell in New Castle from a severe thunderstorm. Half dollar, nickel and dime size hail occurred.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	New Castle	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees and wires in New Castle.
June 2013	Flash Flood	New Castle	-	Thunderstorms with very heavy rain also caused flash flooding of smaller streams and poor drainage areas in and around New Castle. Several vehicles became trapped in flood waters. No injuries were reported. Event precipitation totals included 1.75 inches at the New Castle County Airport.
June 2012	Hail	New Castle	-	A thunderstorm dropped penny-size hail in the town of New Castle.
June 2012	Hail	New Castle	-	A thunderstorm dropped penny size hail in New Castle.
May 2010	Hail	New Castle	-	The same thunderstorm that dropped quarter size hail in Bear, dropped nickel size hail in New Castle.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	New Castle	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Castle 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
New Castle Historic District	under 500 feet	1984
Amstel House	under 500 feet	1977
New Castle Historic District	under 500 feet	1967
II George Read House	0.1 miles
New Castle Ice Piers	0.2 miles	1982
Lesley-Travers Mansion	0.3 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000285 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.