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Photograph of A. Eliason House
Photograph by Linda Roy Walls, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

A. Eliason House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Eliason House is a historic home located at Mt. It was built about 1850, and is a three-story, five-bay, brick dwelling with a shallow hipped roof.”

Wikipedia article A. Eliason House, 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 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Eliason, A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Rt. 896, Mt. Pleasant, 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. 85002110 - 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of A. Eliason House between 2006 and 2017, burning about 16 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/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
14 March 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
14 March 2007Arson/incendiarism13 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
14 March 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
8 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest ServiceBETHEL WMA
1 November 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
28 January 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named

Every fire 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
Weston1.5 miles1985
Gov. Benjamin T. Biggs Farm1.9 miles1987
Choptank2.0 miles1985
Woodside2.2 miles1985
Achmester2.3 miles1979
Lum's Mill House2.3 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002110 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.