Cow Marsh Old School Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Cow Marsh Old School Baptist Church, also known as Mount Moriah Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church near Sandtown, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1872, and is a simple one-story, rectangular frame building.”
Wikipedia article Cow Marsh Old School Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Sandtown on DE 10, Sandtown, 19934
When was it listed? June 1976
Category. building
Census division. Central Kent
National Register reference number. 76000571 - 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

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cow Marsh Old School Baptist Church between 1999 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
30 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
19 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	4.7 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
12 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
5 May 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
2 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
19 February 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
19 February 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
16 February 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cow Marsh Old School Baptist Church: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Clough and Caulk Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	L.D. Caulk Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandtown, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandtown	$50,000	A gust front outrunning a cluster of severe thunderstorms entered near Sandtown in western Kent County at approximately 11:57 pm EDT on the 29th. This gust front produced damaging wind gusts estimated between 65 mph to 70 mph as it traversed eastward across the county. Within approximately 20 minutes of the gust front passage, a potent line of severe thunderstorms tracked eastward through Kent County, producing another round of destructive wind gusts, estimated from 65 mph to 70 mph. Large tree limbs were reported down across the county, including in Felton and Dover. In addition, several downed trees and an estimated wind gust to 70 mph were reported in Harrington. Severe thunderstorms exited eastern Kent County, including the town of Bowers, at approximately 1:10 am EDT on the 30th.
August 2020	Flash Flood	Sandtown	-	A water rescue took place near the intersection of Mud Mill Road and Heron Circle in Marydel.
August 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Sandtown	-	The tornado touched down in the vicinity of Road 258 south of \|Sandtown Road, then tracked across a section of mostly open fields\|but damaged some trees along the way. It then tracked down the \|western portion of Sandtown Road closer to Route 10 damaging \|several homes and snapping and uprooting several trees. A home had\|some windows blown out along with roof damage, another home had \|its roof blown off and there was a large garage that had its back \|sheet metal wall torn off. The tornado crossed Route 10 near the \|intersection with Sandtown Road and moved across the Sandtown \|Landfill facility where additional trees were uprooted or snapped,\|two front-end loaders had windows blown out and some truck \|trailers were flipped over. The tornado exited the landfill and \|may have dissipated before reaching the Maryland-Delaware state \|line. Doppler radar data showed rotation and a notable tornado \|debris signature near and just northwest of Sandtown as debris was\|tossed into the air.
May 2018	Flood	Sandtown	-	The Greensboro gage along the Choptank River exceeded flood stage, due to 3 to 5 inches of rainfall over three days.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandtown	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 58 mph in Sandtown.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandtown	-	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
White-Warren Tenant House	2.2 miles	2001
Thomas' Methodist Episcopal Chapel	3.9 miles	1994
Coombe Historic District	4.8 miles	1982
Lewis Family Tenant Agricultural Complex	6.3 miles	1986
Vogl House	6.4 miles	1976
Felton Historic District	6.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000571 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.