Wilmington and Western Railroad

Built in 1966. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Wilmington and Western Railroad is a freight and heritage railroad in northern Delaware, operating over a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) branch line between Wilmington and Hockessin. The 10.2-mile (16.4 km) railroad operates both steam and diesel locomotives.”
Wikipedia article Wilmington and Western Railroad, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1980 · category: District · built in 1966.

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

The listing

Address. DE 41, Hockessin and, 19808
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. district
Census division. Pike Creek-Central Kirkwood
When was it built? 1966
National Register reference number. 80000932 - 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

30 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Wilmington and Western Railroad between 2003 and 2018, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	25
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
22 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
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
21 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	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
Coffee Run Mission Site	0.3 miles	1973
J. McCormack Farm	0.8 miles	1986
Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church	1.0 miles	1973
J. Walker Farm	1.4 miles	1986
Wooddale Historic District	1.4 miles	1979
Wooddale Bridge	1.5 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000932 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.