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One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Vincelette Futuro House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4388 Deep Grass Lane, Houston, 19954
- When was it listed? December 2023
- Category. building
- Census division. Harrington
- National Register reference number. 100009680 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Vincelette Futuro House: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barber Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Barber Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Porter Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Porter Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Stayton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Staytons Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| William M. Killen Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| William M. Killen Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Houston, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Houston | - | Pictures sent in of large trees down in Houston, DE. Time estimated from radar. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Houston | - | Wires down at intersection of Blue Jay Lane and Canterbury Road. Time estimated via radar. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Houston | - | Tree down in the town of Houston. Time estimated. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Houston | - | Four and a half inches of rain fell in 24 hours. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Houston | - | A Skywarn spotter reported quarter size hail in Houston. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Houston | - | A severe thunderstorm tore down a couple of wires, tree limbs and trees in Houston. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Houston | - | Thunderstorms with torrential downpours caused roadway, stream and poor drainage flooding along the Milford and Mispillion border in southern Kent County. Doppler Radar storm total estimates reached 3.1 inches within an hour in that area. |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Griffith's Chapel | 1.7 miles | 1983 |
| Golden Mine | 1.9 miles | 1978 | |
 | St. Stephen's P.E. Church | 3.4 miles | 2014 |
| Downtown Harrington Historic District | 3.5 miles | 2019 | |
 | Mordington | 3.5 miles | 1973 |
 | St. Paul A.M.E. Church | 3.7 miles | 2016 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009680 in Record Group 79. |
| Kent County | All 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.
- 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.