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Photograph of Wooddale Historic District
Photograph by Choess, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wooddale Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Wooddale Historic District, also known as the Delaware Iron Works, is a national historic district located at Wooddale in New Castle County, Delaware.”

Wikipedia article Wooddale Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. NW of Newport on Wooddale Rd, Newport, 19807
  • When was it listed? August 1979
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Piedmont
  • National Register reference number. 79000630 - 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

28 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Wooddale Historic District between 2003 and 2018, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined24
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
22 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 August 2003Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 April 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 April 2005Missing 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wooddale Historic District: 2 plants, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Mica. 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
Fairville Mica OccurrenceMicaOccurrence
Wilmington Plant DupontTitaniumPlant
Wilmington Plantozark-MahoningFluorine-FluoritePlant

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindNewport-A severe thunderstorm knocked down about a half dozen trees in Newport.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNewport-A severe thunderstorm knocked down dozens of trees in Newport.
June 1998LightningNewport-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
Wooddale Bridge0.2 miles1973
Charles Springer Tavern1.1 miles1992
Coffee Run Mission Site1.1 miles1973
James Armor House1.1 miles1992
J. McCormack Farm1.3 miles1986
Fell Historic District1.4 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000630 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.