St. Joseph's on the Brandywine

Built in 1841. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Joseph on the Brandywine, originally Saint Joseph's Church until St. Joseph's Church - Wilmington was built in 1947, is a parish of the Catholic Church in Greenville, Delaware, United States, in the Diocese of Wilmington.”
Wikipedia article St. Joseph on the Brandywine, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1976 · category: District · built in 1841.

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 4 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10 Barley Mill Rd., Greenville, 19807
When was it listed? November 1976
Category. district
Census division. Piedmont
When was it built? 1841
National Register reference number. 76000572 - 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

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph's on the Brandywine between 2003 and 2005, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	6
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
8 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 April 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 November 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 November 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 October 2003	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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of St. Joseph's on the Brandywine: 2 plants, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.	Chromium	Past Producer
Wilmington Plant Dupont	Titanium	Plant
Wilmington Plantozark-Mahoning	Fluorine-Fluorite	Plant

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	2 hurt	A tree fell onto a car due to thunderstorm winds, Two people were injured in the car.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Trees down in Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Trees and power poles down n Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Trees and wires were downed in Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A tree was downed near the intersection of Montchanin Rd and Buck Rd. Time estimated from radar.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees and wires in Greenville (Christina Hundred).
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down large tree limbs and wires in Greenville in Christina Hundred.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down some large trees in and around Greenville. At least one road was blocked by fallen trees. About 8,000 homes and businesses lost power in New Castle County. There were still nearly 1,000 homes and businesses without power at 9 p.m. EDT that evening.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	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
Holladay-Harrington House	0.3 miles	2004
Brindley Farm	0.3 miles	1976
Breck's Mill Area	0.4 miles	1971
Breck's Mill Area-Henry Clay Village Historic District (Boundary Decrease)	0.4 miles	1988
Walker's Mill and Walker's Bank	0.5 miles	1972
Breck's Mill Area-Henry Clay Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000572 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.