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Yorklyn, Delaware

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Piedmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19707. It lies near Horseshoe Hill. The Survey maps it on the Kennett Square quadrangle. It stands 174 feet above sea level.

Yorklyn within New Castle County

On record in Yorklyn

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 33 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Yorklyn between 2003 and 2018, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 August 2003Smokingunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 July 2011Smoking5.0 acresPennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionWOODWARD FIRE
23 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 April 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protectionnot named
19 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire ProtectionSTRIKER
13 November 2005Naturalunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yorklyn: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fairville Mica OccurrenceMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yorklyn in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Flash FloodYorklyn-Flash flooding was reported in Hockessin Park.
August 2020Flash FloodYorklyn-A home in Yorklyn was taking on water. A section of Yorklyn Road was washed away by flood waters.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindYorklyn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Castle County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Yorklyn Ridge0.5 miles33
Auburn0.7 miles33
Horseshoe Hill0.7 miles33
Larchmont0.7 miles33
Valley View0.8 miles33
Montgomery Woods0.8 miles33
Auburn Hills1.0 miles33
Skyline Orchard1.1 miles33

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on YorklynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8055649The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216260. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.