Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, also known as McKennan's Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Mill Creek and McKennan's Church Roads near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1853, and is a two-story, stuccoed stone structure.”
Wikipedia article Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mill Creek and McKennan's Church Rds., Newport, 19808
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. building
Census division. Pike Creek-Central Kirkwood
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 73000532 - 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

30 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church between 2003 and 2018, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	25
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
22 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Newport	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down about a half dozen trees in Newport.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Newport	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down dozens of trees in Newport.
June 1998	Lightning	Newport	-	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
J. Walker Farm	0.5 miles	1986
J. McCormack Farm	0.8 miles	1986
J. Lindsay Barn	0.9 miles	1986
Wilmington and Western Railroad	1.0 miles	1980
Coffee Run Mission Site	1.3 miles	1973
Mermaid Tavern	1.4 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000532 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.
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.