Somerville

Built in 1806. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Somerville is a historic home located near Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. It is a two-story, five-bay, brick structure with a Victorian cross-gable roof and portico.”
Wikipedia article Somerville (Kenton, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1806.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 1 mi. E of Kenton on DE 42, Kenton, 19904
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Census division. Kenton
When was it built? 1806
National Register reference number. 74000599 - 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.

Storms near this property

5 since 2003

Regional 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

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
Kenton Historic District	0.2 miles	1983
James Williams House	0.4 miles	1983
Jefferson Lewis House	0.9 miles	1983
George Arnold House	1.0 miles	1983
Cooper House	1.0 miles	1973
Kenton Post Office	1.1 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000599 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.
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.