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Photograph of Mondamon Farm
Photograph by David Ames, HABS photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mondamon Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Mondamon Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. The original section was built about 1840.”

Wikipedia article Mondamon Farm, 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

  • Address. Rt. 2, Odessa, 19709
  • When was it listed? November 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rebuilding St. Georges Hundred 185-1880 TR
  • Census division. Middletown-Odessa
  • National Register reference number. 85003524 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mondamon Farm: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Delaware Plant GettySulfurPlant

Every working recorded in New Castle County

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002LightningOdessa$50,000no account filed
April 2016LightningOdessa$10,000Lightning 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 2026Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Mesonet station DEL13 Us 1 At Appoquinimink River. Time given in report.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOdessa-DEDOT gauge at US 1 at Appoquinimink River measured 58 mph gust.
July 2022HailOdessa-Report of quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Tree limbs and wires were downed near Brick Mill Rd and Dove Run Blvd in Odessa. Time estimated from radar.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Multiple large trees were damaged including some split.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOdessa-An mPing report of tree limbs down and property damage at this location. Time estimated from radar.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Measured by a Delaware DOT gauge.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Trees were reported down in Odessa. Time estimated from radar.
September 2016FloodOdessa-Marl Pit road closed between US 13 and Brick Mill Road due to water on road.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindOdessa-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 2002Thunderstorm WindOdessa-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Liston Ranger Rear Light Stationunder 500 feet1978
Biddle House0.3 miles1978
Retirement Farm0.7 miles1985
Old Ford Dairy (Boundary Increase)1.2 miles1986
Old Ford Dairy1.3 miles1985
Idalia Manor1.3 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85003524 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.