Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“Clayton Farm, is a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1850, and is a three-story, five-by-two bay, timber-frame structure on a brick foundation.”
Wikipedia article Choptank (Middletown, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Also known as. Rebuilding St. Georges Hundred 185-1880 TR
Census division. Middletown-Odessa
National Register reference number.85002108- 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
8 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Choptank
between 2006 and 2017, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Arson/incendiarism
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Debris and open burning
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
21 March 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
14 March 2007
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
14 March 2007
Arson/incendiarism
13 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
14 March 2007
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
8 February 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.5 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
BETHEL WMA
1 November 2006
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
5 October 2007
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
28 January 2007
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Middletown, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 23 thunderstorm wind, 7 lightning, 3 flash flood, 3 heavy rain.
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.
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 Middletown. .
Lightning strikes hit an electric wire at Catherine and Main Streets with the second strike at the Amazon Warehouse and Industrial Drive. Power outages and fires occurred with both strikes.
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.
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.
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.
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