Thomas Sutton House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Thomas Sutton House, also known as the House on Game Preserve, is a historic home located at Woodland Beach, Kent County, Delaware. It was built about 1733, and is a two-story stuccoed brick house, constructed on a single pile, hall and parlor plan.”
Wikipedia article Thomas Sutton 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. Sutton, Thomas, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. DE 79, with Woodland Beach Wildlife Area, Woodland Beach, 19977
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. building
Census division. Smyrna
National Register reference number. 73000505 - 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Sutton House between 1997 and 2016, burning about 10 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	FISH
20 June 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	ENTRANCE
18 March 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	MISERY

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland Beach, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland Beach	-	Wires down around Hay Point Landing Road and Hawkey Branch Road. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland Beach	-	Downed tree limbs and power lines were reported in the Woodland Beach area. Time estimated from radar.
August 2011	Flood	Woodland Beach	-	Flooding drowned several thousand chickens in Felton. Delaware State Route 6 was flooded in Smyrna and Delaware State Route 9 was flooded in Little Creek. Mirror Lake also flooded in Dover. Event rainfall totals included 10.08 inches in Marydel, 8.55 inches in Smyrna, 6.93 inches in Dover, 5.26 inches in Magnolia and 4.90 inches in Felton.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Woodland Beach	-	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
John M. Voshell House	1.8 miles	1983
Short's Landing Hotel Complex	2.3 miles	1983
George Farmhouse	2.5 miles	1982
Allee House	2.8 miles	1971
Timothy Cummins House	3.7 miles	1983
David J. Cummins House	4.1 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000505 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.
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.