Woodside

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Woodside is a historic home located at Mt. It was built about 1860, and is a two- to three-story, five-bay, L-shaped brick dwelling with a center passage plan with a full-width front porch.”
Wikipedia article Woodside (Mt. Pleasant, Delaware), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. Rt. 435, 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
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 85002119 - 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 Woodside between 2006 and 2017, burning about 17 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
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
18 March 2006	Smoking	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
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

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
Choptank-Upon-The-Hill	0.5 miles	1985
Gov. Benjamin T. Biggs Farm	0.5 miles	1987
Choptank	0.8 miles	1985
Fairview	1.4 miles	1987
Cornucopia	1.7 miles	1987
A. Eliason House	2.2 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002119 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.