Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“Hazzard House is a historic home located at Milton, Sussex County, Delaware. The original section dates to the 18th century, and is a two-story, three-bay, single pile dwelling, of timber-frame construction on a brick foundation.”
Wikipedia article Hazzard House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73000559- 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
17 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hazzard House
between 2002 and 2019, burning about 22 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
Debris and open burning
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Smoking
2
Other causes
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Milton, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
A lightning strike and ensuing fire damaged a home on Ellison Drive in Milton. Four fire companies helped extinguish the blaze. No injuries were reported.
A lightning strike at a Milton substation damaged some equipment. It caused 1,741 Delmarva Power and Light customers in Milton and another 67 in Harbeson to lose power. The outage last about four and a half hours.
Runoff from two days of heavy rain caused poor drainage and field flooding in eastern Sussex County. In Milton, flooding was reported at the Shipbuilders Village on Spinmaker Lane. Ponding of water occurred at the Cannery Village near the Sussex County Airport in Georgetown and Plantation Road south of Belltown was also nearly impassable. Event precipitation totals included 4.73 inches in Georgetown, 4.16 inches in Greenwood, 3.96 inches in Seaford and 2.53 inches in Delmar.
A cluster of showers and thunderstorms moved across Delaware, well ahead of a cold front, during the afternoon of the 31st. Some of the thunderstorms produced locally strong winds, which downed numerous power lines in the Milton area at about 3:45 PM EDT.
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.
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.
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