Charles Allen House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Charles Allen House is a historic home located at Christiana, Delaware, United States. It was built in the first half of the 19th century, and is a two-story, three-bay, single pile, gable-roofed dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Charles Allen House (Christiana, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1983 · 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.
Listed as. Allen, Charles, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 855 Canoe Rd., Christina, 19702
When was it listed? August 1983
Category. building
Also known as. White Clay Creek Hundred MRA
Census division. Upper Christiana
National Register reference number. 83001348 - 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

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Charles Allen House between 2004 and 2005, burning about 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7

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
23 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Charles Allen House: 11 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron. 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
Iron Hill Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Delaware Brick Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Delaware Brick Co. Pit and Mill	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Constructors Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Delaware Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Freeway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Freeway Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Route 40 Farm	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Whittington Sand & Gravel Pit & Mil	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in New Castle 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
James Stewart Jr. House	0.5 miles	1983
Christiana Historic District	1.6 miles	1974
John Lewden House	1.7 miles	1979
Old Fort Church	1.8 miles	1983
Public School No. 111-C	1.9 miles	1979
Buena Vista	2.3 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001348 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
New Castle County	All 411 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.