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Harbeson is an unincorporated community in east central Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 9/Delaware Route 404 and Delaware Route 5, east of the town of Georgetown, the county seat of Sussex County. [2] Its elevation is 36 feet (11 m). [1] It has a post office with the ZIP code 19951. [3]
Delaware is divided into three counties and contains 57 incorporated places consisting of cities, towns, and villages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Of these, there are 10 cities, 3 villages, and 44 towns. As of 2020, the largest municipality by population in Delaware is Wilmington with 70,898 residents, while the largest by area is Dover which spans 23.668 sq ...
Towns in Sussex County, Delaware (5 C, 21 P) Unincorporated communities in Sussex County, Delaware (70 P) C. Cities in Sussex County, Delaware (4 C, 4 P) F.
It is the largest county in Delaware by area. The county's land area comprises 48.0 percent of the state's land area. It is the second-highest percentage of territory of a state of any county in the United States. Sussex County, like Delaware's two other counties, is subdivided into Hundreds.
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 ...
What is now US 9 in Delaware was originally built as a state highway during the 1920s and designated by 1936 as Delaware Route 28 (DE 28) between Laurel and Georgetown and a part of DE 18 between Georgetown and Lewes. US 9 was extended to Delaware from New Jersey by way of the Cape May–Lewes Ferry in 1974, replacing all of DE 28 and the ...
Delaware Route 404 (DE 404) is a major state highway in Sussex County, Delaware that spans the east–west width of the state. DE 404's western terminus is at the Maryland border northwest of Bridgeville , where the road continues into that state as Maryland Route 404 (MD 404), and its eastern terminus is at the Five Points intersection with U ...
Delaware Route 5 Alternate (DE 5 Alt.) is a 3.8-mile-long (6.1 km) alternate route of DE 5 that bypasses the town of Milton. The route travels west from DE 5 south of Milton along two-lane undivided Sand Hill Road through areas of farms and woods with some homes.