Ruth Mansion House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The William Ruth Mansion House is a historic house in Leipsic, Delaware. Originally built for William Ruth, a merchant and trustee of the first free school in Delaware, the house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973.”
Wikipedia article Ruth Mansion House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Leipsic, 19901
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. building
Also known as. Leipsic and Little Creek MRA (AD); Leipsic and Little Creek MRA
Census division. Dover
Architectural style. Georgian architecture
National Register reference number. 73000496 - 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

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ruth Mansion House between 1994 and 2007, burning about 102 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	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 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	STEAM FIRE
20 June 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	ENTRANCE
31 March 1994	Arson/incendiarism	95 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	SHEPRNEGUT
18 March 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	MISERY
1 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ruth Mansion House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Tarburton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Tarburton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leipsic, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
August 2017	Flood	Leipsic	-	Water on DE-9 near DE-42.
October 2009	Flood	Leipsic	-	Two days of heavy rain caused field and roadway flooding along the Delaware State Route 9 corridor between Little Creek and Leipsic. Cornfields in the area were flooded. About 1 foot of water accumulated on Delaware State Route 9 with the heaviest flooding reported near the Little Creek Wildlife Area and the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Event precipitation totals included 2.97 inches in Felton, 2.86 inches in Dover, 2.79 inches in Marydel and 2.14 inches in Smyrna.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Leipsic	-	A severe thunderstorm tore down large tree limbs and wires in central Kent County in and around Dover.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Leipsic	-	no account filed
July 2004	Tornado (F0)	Leipsic	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Leipsic	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Rawley House	under 500 feet	1983
Fennimore Store	under 500 feet	1982
McClary House	under 500 feet	1983
MAGGIE S. MYERS (schooner)	under 500 feet	1983
KATHERINE M. LEE (Schooner)	0.1 miles	1983
Alexander Laws House	0.1 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000496 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent 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.
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.