Little Creek Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Little Creek Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located on Main Street in Little Creek, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1883, and is an ell-shaped, one-story frame building in the Late Gothic Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Little Creek Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1982 · 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. Main St., Little Creek, 19901
When was it listed? May 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Leipsic and Little Creek MRA
Census division. Dover
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 82002316 - 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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Little Creek Methodist Church between 1994 and 2007, burning about 2,805 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
31 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 August 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 August 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	STEAM FIRE
4 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Little Creek Methodist Church: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dover Equip. Co. Dredge No. 7	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
George Nashold Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
George Nashold Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
St Jones River Gravel Co Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Tarburton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Tarburton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Creek, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
April 2009	Lightning	Little Creek	$1,000	Lightning strikes caused several homes in Little Creek to lose power.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Creek	-	A severe thunderstorm snapped a pole on Delaware State Route 9 in East Dover Hundred south of Little Creek.

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
Elizabeth Stubbs House	under 500 feet	1982
Old Stone Tavern	under 500 feet	1973
Jonathan Woodley House	under 500 feet	1982
Cherbourg Round Barn	1.0 miles	1978
Tyn Head Court	1.7 miles	1973
Macomb Farm	2.1 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002316 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.