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Prince George's Chapel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
From the record
“Prince George's Chapel is a historic Episcopal chapel of ease located in Dagsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in what was then a rural area in 1755 as a chapel-of-ease for St.”
Wikipedia article Prince George's Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.71000235- 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
4 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Prince George's Chapel
between 2002 and 2017, burning about 3 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
2
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
1 working within 5 miles of Prince George's Chapel: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. 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
Dagsboro, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning.
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.
Report of several trees snapped and uprooted along a wooded area of Adams Road with several houses receiving roof damage and a couple sheds collapsed. Time estimated from radar. This was a result of a tornado.
An EF-0 tornado occurred on the afternoon of September 11, 2023, in the Dagsboro area of Sussex County, Delaware. |The brief tornado began along Adams Road just east of Dagsboro where damage to multiple structures and trees was observed. A shed in a backyard of a home on Adams Road had partial roof and wall collapse, and an additional larger and more structurally sound shed just feet from the first one was shifted off of its foundation, had the door blown off, and had partial roof collapse. Damage to three homes along Adams Road was noted with glass windows blown out and partial siding and shingle loss. Numerous |large softwood trees were uprooted along the wood line behind the homes on Adams Road along and had large branches snapped off of the trunks.||Further south on Adams Road, very close to the intersection of Tingle Lane, minor loss of siding was noted on a home as well as some more tree and limb damage. This is likely where the tornado reached its maximum width of around 370 yards.||The tornado then continued a short distance down Piney Neck Road to near the intersection of Wild Goose Way where another softwood tree was uprooted in the backyard of a home. The tornado likely occluded at this point and lifted as no further damage was found further downstream.||The National Weather Service would like to thank Sussex County Emergency Management Agency, local Skywarn spotter coordinators, and the public for their assistance with this survey.
Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flash flooding of roadways and small streams from Dagsboro east along the southern shore of the Indian River Bay. High water was reported on Vines Creek Road, Warren Wingate Lane, Holts Landing Road and Waltersbluff Road.
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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