Fairview

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Fairview, also known as the Mayor James Moore House, is a historic home located in Appoquinimink Hundred, southeast of Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1773, and is a two-story, single pile brick dwelling in the Georgian style.”
Wikipedia article Fairview (Odessa, Delaware, 1773), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1984 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE of Odessa, Odessa, 19734
When was it listed? May 1984
Category. building
Census division. Middletown-Odessa
Architectural style. Georgian architecture
National Register reference number. 84000835 - 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.

Storms near this property

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Odessa, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2002	Lightning	Odessa	$50,000	no account filed
April 2016	Lightning	Odessa	$10,000	Lightning from thunderstorms associated with a strong cold front moving across the area during the late evening hours on the 2nd caused a structure fire in Odessa.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	Mesonet station DEL13 Us 1 At Appoquinimink River. Time given in report.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	DEDOT gauge at US 1 at Appoquinimink River measured 58 mph gust.
July 2022	Hail	Odessa	-	Report of quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	Tree limbs and wires were downed near Brick Mill Rd and Dove Run Blvd in Odessa. Time estimated from radar.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	Multiple large trees were damaged including some split.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	An mPing report of tree limbs down and property damage at this location. Time estimated from radar.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	Measured by a Delaware DOT gauge.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	Trees were reported down in Odessa. Time estimated from radar.
September 2016	Flood	Odessa	-	Marl Pit road closed between US 13 and Brick Mill Road due to water on road.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	A mesonet site measured a wind gust of 61 mph during a severe thunderstorm in Saint Georges Hundred near the Appoquinimink River. Another wind gust of 53 mph was measured in Odessa.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Odessa	-	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
Fairview	0.6 miles	1985
Corbit-Sharp House	1.0 miles	1967
Hill Island Farm	1.1 miles	1992
Odessa Historic District	1.1 miles	1971
David W. Thomas House	1.2 miles	1992
Old St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church	1.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000835 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.
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.