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New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way is a railroad right of way connecting Frenchtown, Cecil County, Maryland, and Porter, New Castle County, Delaware. The New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad originally crossed the Delmarva Peninsula from a wharf in New Castle to a wharf at Frenchtown on the Elk River in Maryland.”
Wikipedia article New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1976 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.76002290- 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
21 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 21 fires within 5 miles of New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way
between 2005 and 2019, burning about 72 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Arson/incendiarism
10
Recreation and ceremony
4
Smoking
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Debris and open burning
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
29 September 2007
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
23 August 2006
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
3 April 2008
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
23 April 2018
Smoking
1.0 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
2 April 2008
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
17 April 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
15 April 2008
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
30 March 2008
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way: 4 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Porter, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 flash 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.
Multiple vehicles stuck in flood waters in the communities of Kirkwood and Red Lion, including some water rescues. Additionally, a trailer park had to be evacuated.
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.
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.
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