Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“Port Penn Historic District is a national historic district located at Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 48 contributing buildings and 5 contributing sites in the original eight block town plan and one block 19th century extension of Port Penn.”
Wikipedia article Port Penn Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
National Register reference number.78000907- 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
4 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Port Penn Historic District
between 1992 and 2015, burning about 425 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Debris and open burning
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Port Penn Historic District: 1 plant.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Port Penn, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Reports of tree damage with debris blocking portions of Dutch Neck Road and Thorntown Road northwest of Port Penn. Power outages also reported in the area. Time estimated.
A funnel cloud was observed near Port Penn. Photos showed it extended about halfway to the ground. This was likely a non-mesocyclonic funnel associated with interactions between new updrafts and old outflow boundaries. Time estimated from radar and public reports.
A downed tree and utility pole led to the closure of the intersection of West Market Street and Delaware City Port Penn Road. The time of the event was estimated from radar.
Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flash flooding in Port Penn. Delaware State Route 9 was closed and several cars had to be abandoned. No serious injuries were reported.
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.
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.
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