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Mill House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Mill House is a historic home located at Milford, Kent County, Delaware. The house is located across from the Parson Thorne Mansion.”

Wikipedia article Mill House (Milford, Delaware), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 414 NW Front St., Milford, 19963
  • When was it listed? January 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Milford MRA
  • Census division. Milford North
  • Architectural style. Georgian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83001380 - 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

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Mill House between 2002 and 2015, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 August 2004Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use30 acresDelaware Forest ServiceFLEA FIRE
9 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreDelaware Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresDelaware Forest ServiceWHEAT FIRE
15 February 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mill House: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barber Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Barber Sand and Gravel Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Porter Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Porter Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
James McColley Houseunder 500 feet1983
Parson Thorne Mansionunder 500 feet1971
Milford New Century Club0.2 miles1982
North Milford Historic District0.2 miles1983
Christ Church0.2 miles1973
Old Fire House0.2 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001380 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent CountyAll 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.