Woodside Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Woodside Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Woodside United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church located on Main Street, and North Murderkill Hundred in Woodside, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1889, and is a rectangular frame building in the Late Gothic Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Woodside Methodist Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1996 · 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.
Address. Main St., North Murderkill Hundred, Woodside, 19904
When was it listed? February 1996
Category. building
Census division. Central Kent
National Register reference number. 96000107 - 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Woodside Methodist Episcopal Church in 2014, burning about 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	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
13 May 2014	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Woodside Methodist Episcopal Church: 1 past producer, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	George Nashold Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	George Nashold Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodside, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 5 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Woodside	-	Just over 2 inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Woodside	-	Two and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Woodside	-	Three a third inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Woodside	-	Two and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Woodside	-	Around three inches of rain fell.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodside	-	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
Star Hill AME Church	2.7 miles	1994
Camden Friends Meetinghouse	3.1 miles	1973
Lewis Family Tenant Agricultural Complex	3.1 miles	1986
Camden Historic District	3.2 miles	1974
Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church	3.2 miles	1994
Wyoming Railroad Station	3.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000107 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.
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.