Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
“The Evans-West House is a historic house at 40 West Avenue in Ocean View, Delaware. It is a L-shaped wood-frame house, with clapboard siding, a cross-gable roof configuration, and a brick foundation.”
Wikipedia article Evans-West House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ocean View, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 lightning, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1998 | Lightning | Ocean View | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Lightning | Ocean View | $100,000 | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Lightning | Ocean View | $50,000 | A lightning strike and ensuing fire caused extensive damage to a home on Inlet View Court in Bethany Beach. No injuries were reported. |
| May 2009 | Lightning | Ocean View | $40,000 | A lightning strike and ensuing fire sparked a garage and house fire on Oyster Shell Cove in Salt Pond in Baltimore Hundred. The garage was struck by lightning and the fire then spread to the home. Damage was estimated at $40,000. No injuries were reported. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Ocean View | - | Flash flooding occurred along portions of SR 1 Coastal Hwy. |
| June 2021 | Lightning | Ocean View | - | An outbuilding fire due to a lightning strike was reported on Oakwood Rd. Time estimated from dispatch calls. |
| June 2021 | Lightning | Ocean View | - | Fire departments responded to a structure fire due to lightning on Oakwood Rd. Time estimated from dispatch calls. |
| July 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Ocean View | - | A funnel cloud was reported north of Bethany Beach. This was likely the same funnel which would become a waterspout offshore, but there was no confirmation it ever touched down over land. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocean View | - | A mesonet site at Indian River Inlet measured a 50 knot wind gust. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocean View | - | Several trees down in the Millville and Pcean View Area. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Ocean View | - | Thunderstorms with heavy downpours caused flash flooding of small streams, fields as well as poor drainage flooding in southeastern Sussex County. Event precipitation totals included 4.13 inches in Bethany Beach, 3.80 inches in Selbyville and 3.50 inches in Gumboro. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Ocean View | - | Thunderstorms with heavy downpours caused the flooding of Delaware State Route 1 on the south end of the Indian River Inlet Bridge. Other stream and poor drainage flooding occurred in Indian River Hundred and Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred. Doppler Radar storm total estimates reached between 3 and 6 inches across east central Sussex County with the highest estimates along the border between Indian River and Lewes and Rehoboth Hundreds. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ocean View | - | A severe thunderstorm knocked down several trees in Ocean View. |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Tunnell-West House | 0.2 miles | 2012 |
 | Dinker-Irvin Cottage | 1.6 miles | 2017 |
 | Spring Banke | 2.9 miles | 1976 |
| Union Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church Complex | 3.2 miles | 2014 | |
 | Blackwater Presbyterian Church | 4.0 miles | 1976 |
 | Indian River Life Saving Service Station | 6.1 miles | 1976 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000844 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. |
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