Thomas B. Coursey House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Coursey House is a historic home located north of Coursey Pond near Felton, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1867, and is a three-story, five-bay, low hip-roofed, center-hall passage, single-pile, rectangular-plan, large frame house.”
Wikipedia article Thomas B. Coursey House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1990 · 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. Coursey, Thomas B., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Rd. 388 N of Coursey Pond, Felton, 19943
When was it listed? July 1990
Category. building
Census division. Milford North
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90001069 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Thomas B. Coursey House: 5 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
Barber Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Barber Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stayton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Staytons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
William M. Killen Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
William M. Killen Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Felton, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail, 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	$200,000	Two sites along Route 13 had some wind damage. One was about 2 miles south of Felton where a warehouse lost its loading doors and sustained damage to some other doors. An empty trailer was blown off a rig which was driving south on Route 13. The second site was just west of Route 13 north of Felton where a mobile home was moved from its foundation (no tie-down) a damaged. Winds were estimated between 55 and 70 mph.
May 2004	Lightning	Felton	$10,000	no account filed
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	-	Multiple trees and wires blown down near Felton.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	-	A tree was downed on Turkey Point Rd at Peach Basket Rd. Time estimated from radar.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	-	Several trees were blown down in western Kent County resulting in power outages. Time estimated from radar.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	-	Trees and wires were downed in Felton. Time estimated from radar.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	-	Tree down into wire in Felton. Time estimated from radar.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	-	Tree fell on a house in Felton DE. Numerous trees down throughout the area. Time estimated by radar.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	-	Trees downed due to thunderstorm winds onto a road in Felton. A roof was also ripped off on Carpenters Bridge road.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Felton.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Felton	-	Just over four inches of rain fell.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down several large tree limbs in Felton.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Felton	-	Thunderstorms with torrential downpours produced poor drainage, field and small stream flash flooding near Felton. U.S. Route 13 was flooded. Storm totals included 4.09 inches in Felton.
March 2007	Heavy Rain	Felton	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Felton	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Felton	-	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
Mordington	1.8 miles	1973
Bonwell House	2.2 miles	1973
Gov. George Truitt House	2.4 miles	1978
Frederica Historic District	2.6 miles	1977
Barratt's Chapel	3.6 miles	1972
Felton Railroad Station	3.7 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001069 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.
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.