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Photograph of Dinker-Irvin House
Photograph by Linda Roy Walls, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dinker-Irvin Cottage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“The Dinker-Irvin House is a historic house museum at 310 Garfield Parkway Extended in Bethany Beach, Delaware. Dinker, it is one of the oldest early 20th-century summer cottages in the community.”

Wikipedia article Dinker-Irvin House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 310 Garfield Pkwy. Extended, Bethany Beach, 19930
  • When was it listed? July 2017
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Selbyville-Frankford
  • National Register reference number. 100001259 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bethany Beach, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 heavy rain, 7 flash flood, 4 lightning, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2002LightningBethany Beach$250,000no account filed
April 2006LightningBethany Beach$100,000no account filed
June 2025Flash FloodBethany Beach-Social media video of multiple roads closed due to flooding at the intersection of Central Blvd and N Pennsylvania Ave.
July 2025Flash FloodBethany Beach-Flash flooding occurred along portions of Garfield Parkway and Hollywood Street.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBethany Beach-Multiple areas in Bethany Beach, DE with wires down. Time estimated from radar.
June 2021LightningBethany Beach-There was a residential structure fire due to a lightning strike on Henlopen Dr in Bethany Beach. Time estimated from dispatch reports.
July 2020Flash FloodBethany Beach-Widespread flooding occurred in Bethany Beach. Many roads were inundated with 1 to 2.5 feet of water.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBethany Beach-Wires were downed on Fairway Dr. Time estimated from radar.
August 2017FloodBethany Beach-High water reported covering portions of Bethany Beach.
August 2017FloodBethany Beach-Water covering Hollywood street.
July 2017Heavy RainBethany Beach-The majority of this rain fell on 7/6.
July 2017Heavy RainBethany Beach-Just over three inches of rain fell at this DEOS site.
September 2016Heavy RainBethany Beach-Five inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainBethany Beach-Three inches of rain in 24 hours.
September 2016FloodBethany Beach-Route 1 closed between Bethany Beach and Dewey beach due to water on the road.
September 2016Heavy RainBethany Beach-Four and a half inches of rain fell.
October 2016Heavy RainBethany Beach-Almost four inches of rain fell.
August 2011Flash FloodBethany Beach-Thunderstorms with torrential downpours caused small stream and field flash flooding in Baltimore Hundred. Doppler Radar storm total estimates reached between 4 and 5 inches, most of which fell within one hour.
August 2010Flash FloodBethany Beach-Thunderstorms dropped a Doppler Radar estimated up to four inches of rain across extreme southeast Sussex County. This caused stream, field and poor drainage flooding.
August 2008Flash FloodBethany Beach-Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused roadway flooding in and around Bethany Beach. Doppler Radar storm total estimates reached around 3 inches in the area, most of which fell within one hour.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBethany Beach-no account filed
July 2002Flash FloodBethany Beach-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBethany Beach-no account filed
August 2001LightningBethany Beach-no account filed
July 1997Heavy RainBethany Beach-no account filed
July 1997HailBethany Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sussex 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
Evans-West House1.6 miles2015
Evans-West House1.6 miles2015
Tunnell-West House1.8 miles2012
Spring Banke4.4 miles1976
Union Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church Complex4.6 miles2014
Blackwater Presbyterian Church5.5 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100001259 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sussex CountyAll 136 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.
  • 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.