Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“Mayfield, also known as the William Wilson House, is a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1839, and is a five-bay, center hall plan brick dwelling with a two-story, rear service wing.”
Wikipedia article Mayfield (Middletown, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.97000836- 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
11 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Mayfield
between 2007 and 2016, burning about 76 acres in total. 1 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
5
Debris and open burning
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Natural
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
25 September 2007
Equipment and vehicle use
4.9 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
5 July 2012
Equipment and vehicle use
39 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
23 July 2008
Natural
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
29 April 2015
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
GOLTS CALDWELL ROAD
27 April 2011
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
GALENA EXIT RAMP 290 301
29 March 2007
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
14 March 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
21 November 2016
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
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.
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. .
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.
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.
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.
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