Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
“Spring Banke is a historic home located near Clarksville, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in two sections, both of oak and gum frame construction.”
Wikipedia article Spring Banke, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Spring Banke between 2002 and 2004, 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 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 March 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 March 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 26 November 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarksville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 2 lightning, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2009 | Lightning | Clarksville | $1,500 | In Dagsboro, an attic fire caused by a lightning strike to a home on Westchester Court caused an estimated $1,500 in damage to it before it was extinguished. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Clarksville | - | An mPing report. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksville | - | An mPing report. |
| June 2021 | Lightning | Clarksville | - | There was a structure fire due to lightning on Seagrass Plantation Ln. Time estimated from dispatch calls. |
| August 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Clarksville | - | A thunderstorm produced three funnel clouds in and around Clarksville (Baltimore Hundred), but they did not touch down and the thunderstorm did not cause any wind or hail related damage. |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church Complex | 0.6 miles | 2014 | |
 | Blackwater Presbyterian Church | 1.3 miles | 1976 |
 | Tunnell-West House | 2.8 miles | 2012 |
 | Evans-West House | 2.8 miles | 2015 |
| Evans-West House | 2.9 miles | 2015 |
 | Dinker-Irvin Cottage | 4.4 miles | 2017 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76000584 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Sussex County | All 136 listed properties in this county. |
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