Ivyside Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1982 · 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 3 buildingss, 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1301 Naaman's Rd., Claymont, 19810
When was it listed? January 1982
Category. building
Census division. Brandywine
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82002324 - 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

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ivyside Farm between 2002 and 2006, burning about 476 acres in total. None 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 May 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	not named
2 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	not named
16 April 2006	Recreation and ceremony	2.2 acres	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	not named
18 March 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.2 acres	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	not named
19 December 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	470 acres	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ivyside Farm: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Phoenix Steel/ Claymont, De.	Iron	Plant

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claymont, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Claymont	1 hurt	A tree fell onto a tent at a church festival. The tree struck and injured a musician playing inside the tent at the time. Time estimated from radar.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Claymont	$20,000	Flash flooding was reported causing several road closures with vehicles stranded.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Claymont	-	Trees and wires down around Claymont. Time estimated from radar.
June 2023	Flash Flood	Claymont	-	At least 20 vehicles were stranded in flood waters in Claymont. Some water rescues were required.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Claymont	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed multiple trees in Claymont.
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Claymont	-	Several reports of downed trees in the area. Time estimated from radar.
August 2011	Hail	Claymont	-	Half dollar size hail fell from a severe thunderstorm in Brandywine Hundred.
August 2011	Hail	Claymont	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail in Claymont (Brandywine Hundred).
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Claymont	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Abner Cloud House	0.5 miles	1992
Village of Arden	0.8 miles	1973
Joshua Pyle House and Wagon Barn	1.4 miles	1993
Naaman's Creek School	1.6 miles	1990
Darley House	1.7 miles	1973
Hickman Row	1.8 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002324 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.
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.