Lum's Mill House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Lum's Mill House, also known as the Clement House, Samuel Davies House, and Lum House, is a historic home located at Lums Pond State Park, Kirkwood, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1713, and is a two-story, three-bay brick house.”
Wikipedia article Lum's Mill House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle 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. Lums Pond State Park on DE 71, Kirkwood, 19701
When was it listed? May 1973
Category. building
Census division. Glasgow
National Register reference number. 73000511 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lum's Mill House between 2006 and 2017, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
18 March 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	13 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
8 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	BETHEL WMA

Every fire recorded in New Castle 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 Lum's Mill House: 2 past producers. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Woodlawn Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Woodlawn Sand & Gravel Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkwood, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2008	Lightning	Kirkwood	$500,000	A lightning strike and ensuing fire destroyed a home just east of Lump's Pond on Mariners Way in New Castle County. A firefighter suffered minor burns. Another lightning strike in Lump's Pond disrupted the county police radio communication. Communications was switched to a back-up system.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Kirkwood	-	Large branches down. Report from MPing.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Kirkwood	-	Several trees were blown down in a mobile home park. Social media picture showed several shallow rooted trees blown down in exact same direction. Time estimated from radar.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kirkwood	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down along Porter road and in the Hickory Woods development. Event time was corrected based on radar data.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kirkwood	-	Numerous trees and power lines were down along Porter road and in the Hickory Woods area.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Kirkwood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Castle 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
Point Farm	0.7 miles	1982
White Hall	1.6 miles	1990
Correll's Farm and Lawn Supply	1.6 miles	1982
Old Post Ofice	1.7 miles	1982
Old Cann Mansion House	2.0 miles	1982
McCoy House	2.0 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000511 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
New Castle County	All 411 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.