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One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Cheyney Clow's Rebellion, Scene of
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- Address. W of Kenton on DE 300, Kenton, 19938
- When was it listed? January 1974
- Category. site
- Census division. Kenton
- National Register reference number. 74000598 - 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
6 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cheyney Clow's Rebellion, Scene of between 2005 and 2017, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.1 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 16 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 10 July 2007 | Natural | 1.1 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 8 March 2017 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 14 March 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
5 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenton, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenton | - | Multiple wires blown down. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Kenton | - | Just over two inches of rain fell at this DEOS. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenton | - | A convectively-driven wind gust brought down a tree onto wires in Kenton. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenton | - | A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees in Kenton. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenton | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Thomas Attix House | 2.4 miles | 1983 |
 | N. C. Downs House | 3.1 miles | 1983 |
 | Aspendale | 3.3 miles | 1970 |
 | Benjamin Blackiston House | 3.3 miles | 1983 |
 | Clark-Pratt House | 3.8 miles | 1983 |
 | Green Mansion House | 3.9 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74000598 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.