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Photograph of Brandywine Village Historic District
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Brandywine Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Brandywine Village Historic District is a national historic district located along Brandywine Creek at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings, 7 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures.”

Wikipedia article Brandywine Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Fires near this property

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Brandywine Village Historic District (Boundary Increase) between 2004 and 2017, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 April 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
19 April 2014Other causesunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
20 November 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 November 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Brandywine Village Historic District (Boundary Increase): 3 plants, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Titanium, Pigment. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.ChromiumPast Producer
Edgemoor Plant TiTitanium, PigmentPlant1956
Wilmington Plant DupontTitaniumPlant
Wilmington Plantozark-MahoningFluorine-FluoritePlant
Winzinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brandywine, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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
September 2000LightningBrandywine$100,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBrandywine$50,000A severe thunderstorm knocked down approximately a dozen trees in the Concord Hills section of Brandywine Hundred near U.S. Route 202. Some of the downed trees damaged vehicles and homes. One home on South Rockfield Drive had its roof, garage and gutter damaged by a downed tree. Ramsey Road and Thompson Bridge Road were closed because of multiple downed trees. In addition, numerous trees were knocked down along Naamans Road. No injuries were reported.
May 2014HailBrandywine-A severe thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail in Talleyville.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBrandywine-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBrandywine-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
Brandywine Village Historic Districtunder 500 feet1971
East Brandywine Historic Districtunder 500 feet1985
Starr House0.2 miles1971
New Castle Leather Raw Stock Warehouse0.3 miles1983
Old First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington0.3 miles1972
Howard High School0.3 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76002296 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.
  • 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.