Garrett Snuff Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Garrett Snuff Mill, also known as the George W. Helme Company, is a historic snuff tobacco mill complex located at Yorklyn, New Castle County, Delaware.”
Wikipedia article Garrett Snuff Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Jct. DE 82 and Yorklyn Rd., Yorklyn, 19707
When was it listed? May 1978
Category. building
Census division. Piedmont
National Register reference number. 78000913 - 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

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Garrett Snuff Mill 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
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
22 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 July 2011	Smoking	5.0 acres	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	WOODWARD FIRE
29 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	not named
19 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 February 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	STRIKER
13 November 2005	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Garrett Snuff Mill: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fairville Mica Occurrence	Mica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yorklyn, the town this property stands in, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2025	Flash Flood	Yorklyn	-	Flash flooding was reported in Hockessin Park.
August 2020	Flash Flood	Yorklyn	-	A home in Yorklyn was taking on water. A section of Yorklyn Road was washed away by flood waters.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Yorklyn	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Castle 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
Garrett Snuff Mills Historic District	0.2 miles	1980
Auburn Mills Historic District	0.3 miles	1980
Ashland Bridge	1.2 miles	1973
Cloud-Reese House	1.3 miles	2001
Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse	1.3 miles	1973
S. P. Dixon Farm	1.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000913 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
New Castle County	All 411 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.