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Cannon's Ferry
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“The Woodland Ferry, historically known as Cannon's Ferry, is a cable ferry located in western Sussex County, Delaware, United States, spanning the Nanticoke River at Woodland, Delaware, west of the city of Seaford. The ferry is operated year-round by the Delaware Department of Transportation.”
Wikipedia article Woodland Ferry, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.73000561- 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
10 since 2004
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cannon's Ferry
between 2004 and 2019, burning about 116 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
Debris and open burning
5
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
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.
Date
Cause
Size
Reported by
Name on the report
6 September 2007
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
14 September 2019
Equipment and vehicle use
13 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
9 July 2004
Arson/incendiarism
100 acres
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
WOODLAND CHURCH RD.
22 June 2005
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
8 March 2006
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
31 December 2008
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
COKESBURY ROAD
3 November 2005
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
23 November 2005
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Woodland, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 tornado.
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.
On Friday May 16th, an EF-1 tornado occurred beginning in Dorchester County, Maryland before crossing into Sussex County, Delaware. While the tornado was in Sussex County, tree damage occurred in Phillips Landing Park. A tree was snapped and twisted near the base of its trunk with additional tree damage in the Cherry Walk Woods neighborhood and along Phillips Landing Road. Additional trees were damaged along Shell Bridge Road with a tree snapped near the intersection with Phillips Landing Road. Several large limbs were also downed near Broad Creek, south-southwest of Bethel. The tornado dissipated in this area.
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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