Philip Reading Tannery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Reading, Philip, Tannery - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 201 E. Main St., Yiddletown, 19709
When was it listed? April 1978
Category. building
Census division. Middletown-Odessa
National Register reference number. 78000897 - 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

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Philip Reading Tannery between 2006 and 2007, 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
1 November 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
5 October 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
10 October 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Every fire 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
Middletown Academy	under 500 feet	1972
Middletown Historic District	0.3 miles	1978
Middletown Academy	0.3 miles	1972
St. Joseph's Church	0.4 miles	1978
Odessa Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.4 miles	1984
Greenlawn	0.6 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000897 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.