Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
From the record
“Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church is a historic church building at 110 Fleming Street in Harrington, Delaware. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, built in 1876 in the Carpenter Gothic style.”
Wikipedia article St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 14000825 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. Stephen's P.E. Church
in 2012, 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
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of St. Stephen's P.E. Church: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Harrington, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 12 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Two sites along Route 13 had some wind damage. One was about 2 miles south of Felton where a warehouse lost its loading doors and sustained damage to some other doors. An empty trailer was blown off a rig which was driving south on Route 13. The second site was just west of Route 13 north of Felton where a mobile home was moved from its foundation (no tie-down) a damaged. Winds were estimated between 55 and 70 mph.
Downburst winds from a severe thunderstorm did considerable but spotty damage in the Harrington area. At the racetrack, about 0.5 mile south of Harrington, a 40-foot section of fiberglass fence was destroyed, three sets of aluminum bleachers were blown down while others were damaged. One mile east of Harrington, a screened porch on the back of a house and a wooden shed were destroyed. Several other houses had minor damage, a street light and TV antenna were damaged.
A severe thunderstorm tore down a tree onto a home in Harrington. No injuries were reported. The same severe thunderstorm tore down a few other large tree limbs and wires in and around Harrington.
East Liberty Street in Harrington was closed between Delaware Avenue and US Route 13 due to flooding. A water rescue took place on East Liberty Street. Another water rescue occurred on West Street.
A fairly fast moving cluster of thunderstorms, well ahead of a cold front, rolled across Delaware during the afternoon of the 31st. Some of the thunderstorms turned severe with locally strong winds. As a result, trees and wires were knocked down near Harrington at about 3:20 PM EDT. In addition, hail to about one-half inch in diameter was reported.
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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