Coleman House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Coleman House is a historic home located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It dates to about 1815, and consists of a two-story, three-bay, frame main section with frame wing.”
Wikipedia article Coleman House (Lewes, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 1977 · 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. 422 Kings Hwy., Lewes, 19958
When was it listed? April 1977
Category. building
Census division. Lewes
National Register reference number. 77000392 - 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Coleman House between 1992 and 2016, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	7
Debris and open burning	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
5 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNITIINO4
13 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	FIELD 2 03
11 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT2-9202
20 April 2016	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Delaware Forest Service	COASTAL
11 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT2-9201
27 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT II
16 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNITIINO3
16 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge	UNITIINO2

Every fire recorded in Sussex 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 Coleman House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite. 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
	Barcroft	Magnesite	Producer	1972
	Lewes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewes, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 lightning, 1 rip current, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 1998	Rip Current	Lewes	1 killed	no account filed
August 2011	Lightning	Lewes	$75,000	The roof of a Drake Knoll home in Lewes was struck by lightning and started a fire. Five fire companies battled the blaze that was mainly confined to the roof. No serious injuries were reported.
July 2007	Lightning	Lewes	$75,000	A series of thunderstorms over a period of three hours produced about 1100 cloud-to-surface lightning strikes in Sussex County and Delaware Bay from 4 p.m. EDT through 7 p.m. EDT on the 16th. About ten structures were struck by lightning in and around Lewes. The worst reported property damage was the ensuing fire that occurred after a lightning strike to a Brighton Drive home. The fire damage was estimated at $50,000. The lightning strike in the Sussex East Mobile Home Park started a shed fire which spread to a home, but was quickly extinguished. Two small fires were started by lightning strikes to homes in the Eagle Point Landing Development. Another lightning strike occurred at an apartment building at the Village of Five Points development. Lightning struck a Home Depot twice on Delaware State Route 1. Lightning also struck the Furniture Galley on Delaware State Route 1 and Practically Yours on U.S. Route 9. No serious injuries were reported with any of the fires.
May 2004	Lightning	Lewes	$30,000	no account filed
July 2003	Lightning	Lewes	$25,000	no account filed
July 2003	Lightning	Lewes	$25,000	no account filed
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	Trees and wires down in Lewes. Time estimated from radar.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees in Lewes.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	A mesonet site measured a wind gust of 58 mph in Lewes.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	A severe thunderstorm tore down several trees in both Lewes and Rehoboth Beach. Half inch hail also fell in Rehoboth Beach.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
July 2003	Lightning	Lewes	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
July 2001	Heavy Rain	Lewes	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
March 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lewes	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sussex 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
Lewes Historic District (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	1992
Lewes Presbyterian Church	0.2 miles	1977
Hall, Col. David, House	0.3 miles	1976
Lewes Historic District	0.4 miles	1977
Lightship WLV 539	0.5 miles	1989
William Russell House	0.8 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000392 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.

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.