Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
From the record
“Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain is a historic temperance fountain located at Rehoboth Beach, Sussex County, Delaware. It was erected by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1929 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Delaware branch of the organization.”
Wikipedia article Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 2009 · category: Object.
National Register reference number.09000052- 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
37 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning
13
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Natural
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Arson/incendiarism
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
5 September 2014
Railroad operations and maintenance
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
5 September 2007
Equipment and vehicle use
4.5 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
23 September 2005
Natural
28 acres
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
GUARD
22 September 2007
Equipment and vehicle use
2.6 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
2 September 2008
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
18 September 2015
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
15 September 2008
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
14 September 2008
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Rehoboth Beach, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 8 rip current, 6 lightning, 3 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 2 deaths and 34 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.
In Rehoboth Beach, a lightning strike and ensuing fire caused about an estimated $250,000 in damage to a house on Coventry Lane in the Rehoboth Beach Yacht and Country Club development. Lightning apparently struck the attic of the home. Six fire companies fought the blaze.
A lightning strike around Silver Lake caused about 600 homes and businesses to instantaneously lose power in Rehoboth Beach. The power surge then affected transformers in the area and an additional 2,000 homes and businesses lost power in Rehoboth Beach. Smoke from one transformer forced the evacuation of the Star of the Sea Condominium. All power was restored by 1038 p.m. EDT that evening.
Report from Rehoboth Beach. Emergency Management reports numerous trees uprooted, large tree limbs down, and power outages mainly across the southern side of town. Notably impacted areas were New Castle Street, Scarborough Avenue, Park Avenue, and Hickman Street. Time estimated via radar.
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.
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.
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