Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“White Hall, also known as the William Cann Tenant House and Andrew Elliason Tenant House, is a historic home located at Bear, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in three phases during the 19th century between about 1830 and 1860, and is a two-story, five-bay frame dwelling with a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article White Hall (Bear, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.90001072- 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 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of White Hall
between 2005 and 2017, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
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
18 March 2006
Smoking
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
14 March 2007
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
14 March 2007
Arson/incendiarism
13 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
14 March 2007
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
11 March 2014
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
1 March 2008
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
not named
8 February 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.5 acres
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
BETHEL WMA
1 December 2005
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of White Hall: 5 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bear, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 lightning, 1 flood.
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.
A lightning strike caused a townhouse fire on Creekside Court in the Christine Hollow Development in Bear. The fire burned the roof of the townhouse and adjacent townhouses also suffered minor damage. The townhome residents were displaced. Damage was estimated at $125,000.
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.
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.
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