Benjamin Blackiston House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Benjamin Blackiston House, also known as Deer Park, is a historic home located near Kenton in Kent County, Delaware. It was built about 1760, and is a three-bay, vernacular frame dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Benjamin Blackiston House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Blackiston, Benjamin, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off DE 6, Kenton, 19938
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Kenton Hundred MRA
Census division. Kenton
National Register reference number. 83001363 - 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Benjamin Blackiston House between 2006 and 2016, burning about 20 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	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
26 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	4.1 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
16 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
9 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
26 April 2016	Smoking	10 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SAWMILL
3 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 March 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenton, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Kenton	-	Multiple wires blown down.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Kenton	-	Just over two inches of rain fell at this DEOS.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Kenton	-	A convectively-driven wind gust brought down a tree onto wires in Kenton.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Kenton	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees in Kenton.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Kenton	-	no account filed

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
Poinsett House	0.8 miles	1983
N. C. Downs House	2.3 miles	1983
Thomas Attix House	2.4 miles	1983
Thomas Lamb House	2.6 miles	1983
Robert Hill House	3.0 miles	1983
Cheyney Clow's Rebellion, Scene of	3.3 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001363 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.
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.