St. George's Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“George's Chapel is a historic Episcopal chapel located near Angola, Sussex County, Delaware on the Indian River Hundred. The original building was built in 1719 but burned down in 1792.”
Wikipedia article St. George's Chapel, Lewes, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex 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. 9 mi. SW of Lewes on DE 5, Lewes, 19968
When was it listed? November 1973
Category. building
National Register reference number. 73000556 - 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

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of St. George's Chapel between 1995 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 July 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 April 2012	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
20 April 2016	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Delaware Forest Service	COASTAL
11 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewes, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 lightning, 1 rip current, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 1998	Rip Current	Lewes	1 killed	no account filed
August 2011	Lightning	Lewes	$75,000	The roof of a Drake Knoll home in Lewes was struck by lightning and started a fire. Five fire companies battled the blaze that was mainly confined to the roof. No serious injuries were reported.
July 2007	Lightning	Lewes	$75,000	A series of thunderstorms over a period of three hours produced about 1100 cloud-to-surface lightning strikes in Sussex County and Delaware Bay from 4 p.m. EDT through 7 p.m. EDT on the 16th. About ten structures were struck by lightning in and around Lewes. The worst reported property damage was the ensuing fire that occurred after a lightning strike to a Brighton Drive home. The fire damage was estimated at $50,000. The lightning strike in the Sussex East Mobile Home Park started a shed fire which spread to a home, but was quickly extinguished. Two small fires were started by lightning strikes to homes in the Eagle Point Landing Development. Another lightning strike occurred at an apartment building at the Village of Five Points development. Lightning struck a Home Depot twice on Delaware State Route 1. Lightning also struck the Furniture Galley on Delaware State Route 1 and Practically Yours on U.S. Route 9. No serious injuries were reported with any of the fires.
May 2004	Lightning	Lewes	$30,000	no account filed
July 2003	Lightning	Lewes	$25,000	no account filed
July 2003	Lightning	Lewes	$25,000	no account filed
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	Trees and wires down in Lewes. Time estimated from radar.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees in Lewes.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	A mesonet site measured a wind gust of 58 mph in Lewes.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	A severe thunderstorm tore down several trees in both Lewes and Rehoboth Beach. Half inch hail also fell in Rehoboth Beach.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
July 2003	Lightning	Lewes	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
July 2001	Heavy Rain	Lewes	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
March 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sussex 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
Indian Mission Church	1.2 miles	1979
Hopkins' Covered Bridge Farm	2.3 miles	1991
Cool Spring Presbyterian Church	3.7 miles	1982
Norwood House	4.7 miles	1982
St. John's Methodist Church	4.8 miles	1990
Harmon School	5.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000556 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sussex 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.