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Photograph of Old Drawyers Church
Photograph by W. Gould White, Photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old Drawyers Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Old Drawyers Church is a historic Presbyterian church on U.S. 13 near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. The congregation was founded by Dutch and Swedish immigrants, though by the time the church was built the congregation was largely made up of Scottish immigrants.”

Wikipedia article Old Drawyers Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle 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. U.S. 13, Odessa, 19709
  • When was it listed? February 1973
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Middletown-Odessa
  • Architectural style. Georgian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 73000533 - 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.

Storms near this property

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Odessa, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002LightningOdessa$50,000no account filed
April 2016LightningOdessa$10,000Lightning from thunderstorms associated with a strong cold front moving across the area during the late evening hours on the 2nd caused a structure fire in Odessa.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Mesonet station DEL13 Us 1 At Appoquinimink River. Time given in report.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOdessa-DEDOT gauge at US 1 at Appoquinimink River measured 58 mph gust.
July 2022HailOdessa-Report of quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Tree limbs and wires were downed near Brick Mill Rd and Dove Run Blvd in Odessa. Time estimated from radar.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Multiple large trees were damaged including some split.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOdessa-An mPing report of tree limbs down and property damage at this location. Time estimated from radar.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Measured by a Delaware DOT gauge.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Trees were reported down in Odessa. Time estimated from radar.
September 2016FloodOdessa-Marl Pit road closed between US 13 and Brick Mill Road due to water on road.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindOdessa-A mesonet site measured a wind gust of 61 mph during a severe thunderstorm in Saint Georges Hundred near the Appoquinimink River. Another wind gust of 53 mph was measured in Odessa.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindOdessa-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Old St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church0.8 miles1982
Odessa Historic District0.9 miles1971
Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse0.9 miles1972
Corbit-Sharp House1.1 miles1967
J. Vandegrift House1.3 miles1985
Fairview1.3 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000533 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
New Castle CountyAll 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.
  • 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.