A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
From the record
“The John Dickinson House, generally known as Poplar Hall, is a National Historic Landmark on the John Dickinson Plantation in Kent County, Delaware, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Dover. It was the boyhood home and sometime residence of Founding Father John Dickinson (1732-1808), principal author of the Articles of Confederation and a drafter of the Constitution of the United States.”
Wikipedia article John Dickinson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000258- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
7 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of John Dickinson House
between 2002 and 2014, burning about 203 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Recreation and ceremony
2
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
4 workings within 5 miles of John Dickinson House: 2 past producers, 2 producers.
2 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
Dover, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 flood.
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.
A severe thunderstorm knocked down large tree limbs in Dover, one of which punctured the roof of the Central Delaware Habitat for Humanity ReStore building. Rain water leaked into the building and damaged the rear of the store. No injuries were reported. A wind gust to 47 mph occurred at the Dover Air Force Base.
Thunderstorms with heavy downpours caused flash flooding within Dover. Lockerman Street was flooded and closed. A water rescue saved one person from a trapped vehicle. A few buses were also surrounded by flood waters within the city. Event precipitation totals included 1.78 inches in Dover.
Runoff from the heavy rain caused flooding along the Saint Jones River twice on the 12th and 13th. The Saint Jones River in Dover was above its 6 foot flood stage from 542 p.m. EDT through 730 p.m. EDT on the 12th and again from 1254 a.m. EDT through 637 p.m. EDT on the 13th. Its highest crest was 6.80 feet at 715 a.m. EDT on the 13th.
Heavy rain led to flash flooding along some roadways and along smaller rivers in Kent County. Road closures were reported during the evening of the 7th. Of note, Saulsbury Road in Dover was closed due to flooding. In addition, the Saint Jones River at Dover was above its 6 foot flood stage from 511 a.m. EDT through 1022 p.m. EDT on the 8th, and it crested at 6.62 feet at 1215 p.m. EDT. Event precipitation totals included 5.19 inches in Smyrna, 4.83 inches in Dover, and 3.70 inches in Felton.
Several trees were reported down, including trees in the area of North Bradford Street. Additional trees and wires were reported down in Smyrna and Hartly.
A wind gust of 77 mph was measured at the Dover Air Force Base during a severe thunderstorm. The severe thunderstorm also caused wind damage at the base.
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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