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Enoch Jones House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Enoch Jones House, also known as "Boxwood," is a historic home located near Clayton, Kent County, Delaware. It dates to the mid-18th century, and consists of a two-story, three-bay, brick main house with a lower two-story frame west wing.”

Wikipedia article Enoch Jones House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Jones, Enoch, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. SW of Clayton off DE 300, Clayton, 19938
  • When was it listed? June 1973
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Smyrna
  • National Register reference number. 73000486 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Enoch Jones House: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hoskinson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clayton, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1999Thunderstorm WindClayton1 hurt, $200,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindClayton$40,000A tree was blown down onto a house in the Clayton Courts Neighborhood.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindClayton$10,000A severe thunderstorm tore down a couple of trees in Clayton, one of which damaged a home.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindClayton-Several large trees and power lines were blown down around Clayton.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindClayton-Several reports of trees and power lines down in Clayton. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindClayton-Several reports of downed trees and wires near Millington Rd. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindClayton-Trees and wires were downed near and south of Clayton. Time estimated from radar.
August 2017FloodClayton-Water reported over the road on Mount Friendship road.
July 2017Heavy RainClayton-Daily rainfall from the 6th.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindClayton-A few downed trees due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2011HailClayton-Nickel size hail fell from a thunderstorm in Clayton.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindClayton-A severe thunderstorm knocked down poles across a roadway in Clayton.
July 2011Flash FloodClayton-Thunderstorms with torrential downpours caused field, poor drainage and small stream flooding in northwestern Kent County in and around Kenton Hundred. Doppler Radar storm total estimates averaged between 3 and 4 inches, most of which fell within one hour.
June 2009HailClayton-Penny to nickel size hail fell in Clayton. Hail covered the ground so extensively, that some of it was still around the next morning.
September 2009Heavy RainClayton-Showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain caused some poor drainage flooding in Kent County. Roadway flooding was reported in Clayton along Peach Alley and Wilson Street. Event precipitation totals included 3.79 inches in Dover and 3.54 inches in West Dover Hundred.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClayton-A severe thunderstorm tore down large tree limbs and wires in Clayton.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindClayton-A severe thunderstorm knocked down a couple of trees and wires in Clayton.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindClayton-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindClayton-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindClayton-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindClayton-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindClayton-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindClayton-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Thomas Davis House0.6 miles1983
William Stevens House0.8 miles1983
J. F. Betz House0.8 miles1983
Robert Hill House1.6 miles1983
St. Joseph's Industrial School1.6 miles2002
Thomas Lamb Farm1.6 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000486 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent CountyAll 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.
  • 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.