Bethel Methodist Protestant Church

Built in 1871 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Bethel Methodist Protestant Church, also known as Bethel Church, is a historic Methodist church and cemetery at the junction of Andrewville Road and Todds Chapel Road/Prospect Church Road in Andrewville, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1871, and is a one-story, three-by-four-bay, gable-roofed, Gothic-influenced frame building.”
Wikipedia article Bethel Methodist Protestant Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1871, Gothic Revival.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of DE 61, DE 114, and DE 304, Andrewsville, 19952
When was it listed? September 1998
Category. building
Census division. Harrington
When was it built? 1871
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 98001093 - 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

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bethel Methodist Protestant Church between 2012 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 April 2012	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
12 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	CONCORD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Andrewsville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 3 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
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Andrewsville	-	Numerous trees down making Andrewville Road impassible west of Farmington. Time estimated from radar. This was part of a macroburst which extended for about 18 miles in a west to east path from near Denton, MD to east of Farmington, DE with peak winds up to 110 mph.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Andrewsville	-	Reports of a structure collapse and roofs blown off of chicken houses on Prospect Church Road. Time estimated from radar. This was part of a macroburst which extended for about 18 miles in a west to east path from near Denton, MD to east of Farmington, DE.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Andrewsville	-	Just under 4 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Andrewsville	-	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
Todd's Chapel	2.8 miles	1998
Tharp House	3.3 miles	1973
St. Paul A.M.E. Church	4.9 miles	2016
Downtown Harrington Historic District	5.2 miles	2019
St. Stephen's P.E. Church	5.3 miles	2014
Vogl House	7.0 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001093 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.