Mordington

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Mordington, also known as the Douqlass House, is a historic home located near Frederica, Kent County, Delaware. It dates to about 1785, and is a three-bay, double-pile plan, brick dwelling in the Georgian-style.”
Wikipedia article Mordington (Frederica, Delaware), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Frederica on Canterbury Rd., Frederica, 19952
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. building
National Register reference number. 73000494 - 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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mordington: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Barber Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Barber Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stayton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Staytons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
William M. Killen Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
William M. Killen Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frederica, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 4 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2003	Lightning	Frederica	$80,000	no account filed
March 2026	Tornado (EF1)	Frederica	-	An EF-1 tornado occurred south of Frederica. Tree damage started at the intersection of Carpenter Bridge Road and Fork Landing Road, where multiple trees were uprooted and snapped. Tree damage continued eastward along Fork Landing Road, including multiple trees snapped. One snapped tree fell into a shed, destroying the shed. Tree damage was observed along Fork Landing Road until just before Browns Branch.
May 2018	Hail	Frederica	-	A report of quarter sized hail. Time approximated by radar.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Frederica	-	Just over two inches of rain fell at this DEOS.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Frederica	-	Just over four inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Frederica	-	Four and a quarter inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Frederica	-	Almost five inches of rain fell.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Frederica	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Thomas B. Coursey House	1.8 miles	1990
Frederica Historic District	3.0 miles	1977
Vincelette Futuro House	3.5 miles	2023
Bonwell House	3.8 miles	1973
Walnut Farm	4.2 miles	1982
Gov. George Truitt House	4.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000494 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.
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.