Photograph of Ashland Covered Bridge — Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ashland Bridge

Built in 1870. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Ashland Covered Bridge, also known as Ashland Bridge or Barley Mill Road Covered Bridge, is a covered bridge over Red Clay Creek on Barley Mill Road in Ashland in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.”
Wikipedia article Ashland Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure · built in 1870.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Ashland over Red Clay Creek, Ashland, 19707
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. structure
Census division. Piedmont
When was it built? 1870
National Register reference number. 73000506 - 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

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Ashland Bridge between 2003 and 2018, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 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	9
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Smoking	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
22 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	not named
26 April 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ashland Bridge: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
	Fairville Mica Occurrence	Mica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$20,000	A severe thunderstorm knocked down trees along three roadways in the Yorklyn area in Mill Creek Hundred. Trees were reported down along Old Kennett Pike and Snuff Mill and Creek Roads.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Several reports of downed tree limbs and power lines in the area. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Ashland	-	A tornado touched down around 5:40 PM on August 7th close to the \|Ashland Nature Center of the Delaware Nature Society or just east \|of the intersection of Brackenville Road and Barley Mill Road \|where some tree damage occurred. The tornado continued east \|southeast to the Swallow Hill area where there were multiple trees\|down across Pyles Ford Road. Trees were snapped at the trunk, \|with one tree falling on the roof of a house. Pyles Ford Road was \|closed due to the amount of tree damage across the road. This wind\|damage was estimated to be 105 mph, equivalent to an EF1 on the \|Enhanced Fujita Scale. \|\|The tornado continued in an easterly direction where substantial \|tree damage occurred just north of Valley Garden Park where over \|20 trees were uprooted or damaged. Campbell Road was also closed \|due to the multiple trees down. More damage occurred along Kennett\|Pike between Kirk Road and the entrance of Wilmington Country \|Club where several trees were uprooted along with large tree limbs\|knocked down. The tornado continued through the Wilmington \|Country Club where approximately 200 trees were damaged. A noted \|convergent pattern in the debris was observed in the tree damage \|across the Wilmington Country Club. The tornado then continued \|eastward before lifting prior to reaching Rockland, Delaware. No \|further damage was noted in the DuPont Country Club or on Concord \|Pike.
June 2018	Flash Flood	Ashland	-	Minor flooding occurred along the Red Clay Creek. The gauge at Wooddale reached a peak of 7.55 feet at 2:15 a.m. EST. Flood stage is 7 feet.

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
S. P. Dixon Farm	0.2 miles	1986
J. Mason Farm	0.4 miles	1986
Mount Cuba	0.8 miles	2003
Graves Mill Historic District	0.9 miles	1979
Mount Cuba Historic District	1.1 miles	1979
A. Armstrong Farm	1.2 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000506 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.