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Photograph of Mt. Airy School No. 27
Photograph by Smallbones, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mt. Airy School No. 27

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Airy No. 27 School is a historic one-room school built in 1863 in Centreville, New Castle County, Delaware. It was designed and built as a one-room, one-teacher school, and operated as such from 1863 to 1932.”

Wikipedia article Mt. Airy School No. 27, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1983 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 5925 Kennett Pike, Centreville, 19807
  • When was it listed? April 1983
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Centreville MRA
  • Census division. Piedmont
  • National Register reference number. 83001400 - 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

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mt. Airy School No. 27 between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
2 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresPennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionWEBB ROAD
27 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionSTRIKER

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 Mt. Airy School No. 27: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Fairville Mica OccurrenceMicaOccurrence

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
Joseph Chandler House0.2 miles1983
Centreville Historic District0.4 miles1983
Carpenter-Lippincott House0.6 miles1983
Owl's Nest Country Place0.7 miles2010
Dauneport House1.2 miles2022
Center Meeting and Schoolhouse1.2 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001400 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.