Fields Heirs

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Fields Heirs, also known as Fields House, was a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1820, and was a five-bay by two-bay center-hall plan residence with a rear wing forming an L-shaped house.”
Wikipedia article Fields Heirs, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off DE 71, Middletown, 19709
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Rebuilding St. Georges Hundred 185-1880 TR
Census division. Middletown-Odessa
National Register reference number. 85002109 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fields Heirs between 2006 and 2007, burning about 2 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
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
10 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	not named

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

42 since 2001

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	$75,000	no account filed
July 2005	Lightning	Middletown	$50,000	no account filed
April 2016	Lightning	Middletown	$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 Middletown. .
July 2016	Lightning	Middletown	$4,000	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.
May 2004	Lightning	Middletown	$1,000	no account filed
August 2016	Lightning	Middletown	$10	Two houses were struck by lightning from a thunderstorm.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	Middleneck Road just before the Maryland line is closed for a tree across the roadway. Time estimated from radar.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	Some large tree limbs were blown down in the Middletown area. Time estimated from radar.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	Measured wind gust of 59 MPH.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	Downed tree and wires near the intersection of main street and Middletown-Warwick Road. Time estimated from radar.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	Several reports of tree damage in the Middletown area. Time estimated from radar.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	Trees were downed with houses damaged in the area. Time estimated from radar.
August 2017	Flood	Middletown	-	Some minor street flooding occurred.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Middletown	-	Flooding reported at the intersection of 299 and 301. Several vehicles were stuck in high water along Main and Wood Streets in Middletown.
July 2017	Flood	Middletown	-	Patriot Drive flooded.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Middletown	-	The majority of this rain occurred on 7/6.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Middletown	-	Several inches of rain fell in a quick time-span.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Middletown	-	Several inches of rain fell in a quick time-span.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	Trees and wires downed on Bunker Hill Road.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	Tree down on Choptank road due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	Large tree taken down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	Numerous trees and wires down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees and wires in Middletown (Saint George's Hundred).
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees onto power lines in Middletown.
June 2012	Hail	Middletown	-	Strong thunderstorms advancing into New Castle County dropped penny-size hail in Middletown.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down large tree limbs and wires in Middletown.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	A severe thunderstorm tore down large tree limbs and wires in and around Middletown. About 120 Delmarva Power and Light customers lost power.
April 2008	Funnel Cloud	Middletown	-	A funnel cloud was sighted over Middletown. It did not touch down and no wind damage was reported.
April 2006	Lightning	Middletown	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	no account filed
June 2005	Lightning	Middletown	-	no account filed
June 2005	Flash Flood	Middletown	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	no account filed
June 2004	Flash Flood	Middletown	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	no account filed
July 2004	Funnel Cloud	Middletown	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Middletown	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Middletown	-	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
Greenlawn	0.4 miles	1973
Odessa Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.6 miles	1984
Middletown Academy	0.7 miles	1972
Middletown Historic District	0.7 miles	1978
Maples	0.8 miles	1978
St. Joseph's Church	0.9 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002109 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.
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.