Allee House

Built in 1753 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Allee House is a historic home located on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, near Dutch Neck Crossroads, overlooking the fields and marshes of Kent County, Delaware. It is believed to have been built in about 1753 by Abraham Allee, Sr., son of John Allee, who purchased the land in 1706 and 1711.”
Wikipedia article Allee House (Dutch Neck Crossroads, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · built in 1753, Queen Anne style.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off DE 9 on Dutch Neck Rd., Dutch Neck Crossroads, 19977
When was it listed? March 1971
Category. building
Census division. Smyrna
When was it built? 1753
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 71000220 - 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

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Allee House between 1994 and 1999, burning about 102 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 June 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	ENTRANCE
31 March 1994	Arson/incendiarism	95 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	SHEPRNEGUT
18 March 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	MISERY

Every fire recorded in Kent 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
John M. Voshell House	1.3 miles	1983
Timothy Cummins House	1.7 miles	1983
Raymond Neck Historic District	2.5 miles	1982
Thomas Sutton House	2.8 miles	1973
George Farmhouse	2.9 miles	1982
Reed House	3.0 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000220 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.