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The highway runs through suburban areas of northern New Castle County, passing through the eastern part of Newark. DE 72 intersects U.S. Route 13 (US 13), DE 7, and DE 1 near Delaware City, DE 71 in Williamsburg, US 40 east of Glasgow, and DE 4, DE 2, and DE 273 in Newark. Parts of DE 72 were built as a state highway during the 1930s. By the ...
Delaware Route 2 (DE 2) is a 10.81-mile-long (17.40 km) east–west state highway located in the northern part of New Castle County in the U.S. state of Delaware.It runs from DE 72 and DE 273 on the eastern edge of Newark east to DE 52 in Wilmington.
Delaware Route 7 (DE 7) is a north–south highway in New Castle County, Delaware that connects U.S. Route 13 (US 13) and DE 72 in Wrangle Hill north to the Pennsylvania border near Hockessin, where the road continues into Pennsylvania as State Route 3013 (SR 3013), intersecting Pennsylvania Route 41 (PA 41) at an interchange.
Newark is surrounded by a large amount of public parkland—over 12,000 acres (49 km 2) – although the city is located roughly halfway between Philadelphia (approximately 45 miles (72 km) away) and Baltimore (approximately 55 miles (89 km) away) and is part of densely populated New Castle County.
DE 2 at Wilmington: 1936 [4] current DE 9A: 2.0: 3.2 DE 9 at Wilmington: US 13 / DE 9 at Wilmington: 1971 [35] current Official length is 0.78 miles (1.26 km) between DE 9 and Christiana Avenue DE 9 Truck: 5.7: 9.2 DE 9 near Tybouts Corner: DE 9 / DE 141 / DE 273 at New Castle — — DE 10: 16.12: 25.94 MD 287 at Sandtown
US 9 exists in Sussex County while DE 9 is located in Kent and New Castle counties. US 202 passes through the Wilmington area in northern New Castle County, with DE 202 heading south from an interchange with I-95 and US 202 along Concord Avenue into the city of Wilmington. [6] DE 202 is signed along a former alignment of US 202. [6] [10]
In 1791, with the expansion of Sussex County to the south and west, the county seat was moved to Georgetown. [6] The county seat of St. Jones (renamed Kent County in 1681 [6]) is at Dover. [6] After 2000, a fourth "Appoquinimink County" was proposed to be carved out of New Castle County. The effort intended to end the zoning restrictions of the ...
Delaware Route 896 (DE 896) is a state highway located in New Castle County, Delaware.The route runs from U.S. Route 13 (US 13) in Boyds Corner north to the Maryland border northwest of Newark, where the road becomes unsigned Maryland Route 896 (MD 896) briefly before heading into Pennsylvania as Pennsylvania Route 896 (PA 896).