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Photograph of Savin-Wilson House
Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Savin-Wilson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Savin-Wilson House, also known as the Dew Duck Inn Hunting Club and John B. Savin House, is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware.”

Wikipedia article Savin-Wilson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1992 · 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.
  • Listed as. Savin--Wilson House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 326, between DE 12 and Co. Rd. 83, Duck Creek Hundred, Smyrna, 19977
  • When was it listed? September 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Dwellings of the Rural Elite in Central Delaware MPS
  • Architectural style. Georgian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 92001135 - 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Savin-Wilson House between 1997 and 1999, burning about 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
20 June 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeENTRANCE
18 March 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeMISERY

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 Savin-Wilson House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hoskinson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Old Brick Store3.2 miles1973
Mount Pleasant3.9 miles1992
Clearfield Farm4.6 miles1973
Fleming House4.8 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001135 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
New Castle CountyAll 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.