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Chelsea

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Chelsea is a historic home located in Delaware City, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1848 by Thomas Clark, and is a three-story, three-bay-square brick block with a low, almost flat, hipped roof surmounted by a widow's walk.”

Wikipedia article Chelsea (Delaware City, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
  • Address. DE 9, Delaware City, 19706
  • When was it listed? April 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Red Lion Hundred MRA
  • Census division. Red Lion
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82002325 - 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

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Chelsea between 1992 and 1995, burning about 170 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/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresSupawna Meadows National Wildlife RefugeMESSYONUS
21 May 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
25 March 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresSupawna Meadows National Wildlife RefugeMILLCREEK2
24 March 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSupawna Meadows National Wildlife RefugeMILLCREEK1

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Chelsea: 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur. 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
Delaware Plant GettySulfurPlant
Delaware Brick Co. PitClayPast Producer
Delaware Brick Co. Pit and MillClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Route 40 FarmSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Woodlawn Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Woodlawn Sand & Gravel Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Delaware City Historic District0.4 miles1983
Eastern Lock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal0.6 miles1975
Fort Dupont Historic District1.0 miles1999
Fairview1.2 miles1982
Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island1.7 miles1971
Windsor2.3 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002325 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.