Todd's Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Todd's Chapel, also known as Todd's Methodist Episcopal Church and Todd's United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist chapel at the junction of Todd's Chapel Road, and Hickman Road near Greenwood, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1858, and is a one-story, rectangular frame building in a vernacular Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Todd's Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1998 · 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 2 sitess, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Todd's Chapel Rd., and Hickman Rd., Greenwood, 19950
When was it listed? September 1998
Category. building
Census division. Harrington
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 98001094 - 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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Todd's Chapel between 2005 and 2019, burning about 16 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 use	5
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
2 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
6 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
9 May 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
4 April 2012	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Delaware Forest Service	not named
14 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
12 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	CONCORD FIRE

Every fire 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

4 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
Bethel Methodist Protestant Church	2.8 miles	1998
Tharp House	5.8 miles	1973
St. Paul A.M.E. Church	7.7 miles	2016
Downtown Harrington Historic District	7.9 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001094 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.