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Photograph of Snowland
Photograph by ROY KLOTZ, JR, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Snowland

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Snowland is a historic home located near Leipsic, Kent County, Delaware. It was built about 1790, and consists of a two-story, five-bay, brick main house with a lower wing that extends the main axis.”

Wikipedia article Snowland (Leipsic, 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. DE 42, Leipsic, 19901
  • When was it listed? March 1973
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Dover
  • Architectural style. Georgian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 73000497 - 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

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Snowland between 1994 and 2007, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeSTEAM FIRE
20 June 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeENTRANCE
31 March 1994Arson/incendiarism95 acresBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeSHEPRNEGUT
18 March 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeMISERY
1 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Snowland: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tarburton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Tarburton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leipsic, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2017FloodLeipsic-Water on DE-9 near DE-42.
October 2009FloodLeipsic-Two days of heavy rain caused field and roadway flooding along the Delaware State Route 9 corridor between Little Creek and Leipsic. Cornfields in the area were flooded. About 1 foot of water accumulated on Delaware State Route 9 with the heaviest flooding reported near the Little Creek Wildlife Area and the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Event precipitation totals included 2.97 inches in Felton, 2.86 inches in Dover, 2.79 inches in Marydel and 2.14 inches in Smyrna.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLeipsic-A severe thunderstorm tore down large tree limbs and wires in central Kent County in and around Dover.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLeipsic-no account filed
July 2004Tornado (F0)Leipsic-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindLeipsic-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
Sipple House0.9 miles1982
Alexander Laws House1.0 miles1983
McClary House1.0 miles1983
Ruth Mansion House1.0 miles1973
Rawley House1.1 miles1983
Fennimore Store1.1 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000497 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.
  • 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.