Yorklyn, Delaware

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Yorklyn, Delaware
Unincorporated community
Abandoned warehouses of the Garrett Snuff Mill in Yorklyn
Yorklyn, Delaware Location within the state of Delaware
Coordinates: 39°48′29″N 75°40′32″W / 39.80806°N 75.67556°W / 39.80806; -75.67556Coordinates: 39°48′29″N 75°40′32″W / 39.80806°N 75.67556°W / 39.80806; -75.67556
Country	United States
State	Delaware
County	New Castle
Elevation	174 ft (53 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes	19736
Area code(s)	302
GNIS feature ID	216260^[1]

Yorklyn is an unincorporated community in northern New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It lies along Delaware Route 82 northwest of the city of Wilmington, the county seat of New Castle County.^[2] Its elevation is 174 feet (53 m).^[1] Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 19736.^[3] Yorklyn is home to Delaware State Parks' Auburn Heights Preserve which includes the Friends of Auburn Heights Preserve and the largest operating collection of Stanley steam cars in the world. Also nearby is Ashland Nature Center and the Center for the Creative Arts along with the Yorklyn Recreation Center, commonly referred to as the Yorklyn pool, which houses two pools, tennis courts, and basketball courts. The Auburn Mills Historic District, Garrett Snuff Mills Historic District, Graves Mill Historic District, and Garrett Snuff Mill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[4]

The National Vulcanized Fiber company was headquartered in Yorklyn however since bankruptcy in 2008 the plant has been largely torn down and the land purchased by the State of Delaware for Auburn Heights Preserve, a Delaware State Park. Plans call for restoring the original Marshall Brothers Mill into a museum and using some of the original NVF buildings for other uses.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Yorklyn, Delaware". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey.
↑ Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 24.
↑ Zip Code Lookup
↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.

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v t e Municipalities and communities of New Castle County, Delaware, United States

County seat: Wilmington

Cities	Delaware City New Castle Newark Wilmington

Towns	Bellefonte Clayton‡ Elsmere Middletown Newport Odessa Smyrna‡ Townsend

Villages	Arden Ardencroft Ardentown

CDPs	Bear Brookside Claymont Edgemoor Glasgow Greenville Hockessin North Star Pike Creek Pike Creek Valley Wilmington Manor

Unincorporated communities	Ashland Augustine Beach Belvidere Biddles Corner Blackbird Boyds Corner Christiana Collins Beach Collins Park Faulkland Farnhurst Flemings Landing Granogue Greenbank Hares Corner Henry Clay Holloway Terrace Kirkwood Landenberg Junction Marshallton Mathews Corners Milford Crossroads Mill Creek Minquadale Mockingbird Hills Montchanin Mount Cuba Mount Pleasant Ogletown Pleasantville Port Penn Prices Corner Red Lion Rockland St. Georges Silverbrook Southwood Stanton State Road Summit Bridge Talleyville Taylors Bridge Tybouts Corner Williamsburg Winterthur Wooddale Wrangle Hill Yorklyn

Hundreds	Appoquinimink Blackbird Brandywine Christiana Mill Creek New Castle Pencader Red Lion St. George's White Clay Wilmington

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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