Walnut Green School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Walnut Green School, also known as District School Number 25, is a historic one-room school building located at Greenville, New Castle County, Delaware. It was founded in 1808 and in 1924 was said to be the oldest schoolhouse in the state.”
Wikipedia article Walnut Green School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1994 · 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 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of DE 82 and Owl's Nest Rd., Greenville, 19807
When was it listed? August 1994
Category. building
Census division. Piedmont
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 94001014 - 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

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Green School between 2003 and 2018, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 April 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 February 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	STRIKER
8 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 November 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Green School: 2 plants, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.	Chromium	Past Producer
Fairville Mica Occurrence	Mica	Occurrence
Wilmington Plant Dupont	Titanium	Plant
Wilmington Plantozark-Mahoning	Fluorine-Fluorite	Plant

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	2 hurt	A tree fell onto a car due to thunderstorm winds, Two people were injured in the car.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Trees down in Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Trees and power poles down n Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Trees and wires were downed in Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A tree was downed near the intersection of Montchanin Rd and Buck Rd. Time estimated from radar.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees and wires in Greenville (Christina Hundred).
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down large tree limbs and wires in Greenville in Christina Hundred.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down some large trees in and around Greenville. At least one road was blocked by fallen trees. About 8,000 homes and businesses lost power in New Castle County. There were still nearly 1,000 homes and businesses without power at 9 p.m. EDT that evening.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	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
Stockton-Montmorency	0.2 miles	2012
Mount Cuba Historic District	0.9 miles	1979
Gatehouse	1.0 miles	1971
Dauneport House	1.2 miles	2022
Mount Cuba	1.2 miles	2003
Graves Mill Historic District	1.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001014 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.
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.