Union Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church Complex

Built in 1873. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Union Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church Complex is a historic church and summer camp meeting facility on Powell Farm Road near Clarksville, Delaware. The property was developed in the post-Civil War era as a summer religious camp for African Americans.”
Wikipedia article Union Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 2014 · category: District · built in 1873.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 9 objectss, 7 buildingss, 2 sitess, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Powell Farm Rd., Clarksville, 19945
When was it listed? September 2014
Category. district
Census division. Selbyville-Frankford
When was it built? 1873
National Register reference number. 14000617 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Union Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church Complex between 2004 and 2017, burning about 2 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
Debris and open burning	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
20 February 2017	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Delaware Forest Service	CEDAR CREEK
26 November 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this property

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarksville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 2 lightning, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Lightning	Clarksville	$1,500	In Dagsboro, an attic fire caused by a lightning strike to a home on Westchester Court caused an estimated $1,500 in damage to it before it was extinguished.
May 2022	Hail	Clarksville	-	An mPing report.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	An mPing report.
June 2021	Lightning	Clarksville	-	There was a structure fire due to lightning on Seagrass Plantation Ln. Time estimated from dispatch calls.
August 2011	Funnel Cloud	Clarksville	-	A thunderstorm produced three funnel clouds in and around Clarksville (Baltimore Hundred), but they did not touch down and the thunderstorm did not cause any wind or hail related damage.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Spring Banke	0.6 miles	1976
Blackwater Presbyterian Church	0.9 miles	1976
Tunnell-West House	3.1 miles	2012
Evans-West House	3.1 miles	2015
Evans-West House	3.2 miles	2015
Dinker-Irvin Cottage	4.6 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000617 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sussex 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.
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.