Brecknock

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Brecknock, also known as the Howell's Mill Seat, is a historic home located near Camden, Kent County, Delaware. The house is in four sections; two of brick and two frame.”
Wikipedia article Brecknock (Camden, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1974 · 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. 0.5 mi. N of Camden off U.S. 13, Camden, 19934
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Census division. Dover
National Register reference number. 74000596 - 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Brecknock between 2002 and 2014, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 May 2014	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
6 April 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 January 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Brecknock: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dover Equip. Co. Dredge No. 7	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
George Nashold Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
George Nashold Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
St Jones River Gravel Co Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Tarburton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Tarburton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camden, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 10 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
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden	-	Downed trees, power lines, and a portion of a structural awning blown off of a building near Webbs Lane and New Burton Road in Dover. Time estimated from radar. Public report relayed via broadcast media.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden	-	Wires down in Camden. Time estimated from radar.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden	-	Trees and wires were downed in Camden. Time estimated from radar.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a couple of trees and wires in Camden.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a couple of trees in Camden.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden	-	no account filed
July 2006	Lightning	Camden	-	no account filed
October 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden	-	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden	-	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Camden Historic District	0.8 miles	1974
Camden Friends Meetinghouse	0.9 miles	1973
Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church	1.0 miles	1994
Wyoming Historic District	1.2 miles	1987
Wyoming Railroad Station	1.3 miles	1980
Great Geneva	1.5 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000596 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent 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.
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.