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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 ...
Newark (/ ˈ nj uː ɑːr k / NEW-ark) [note 1] is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.It is located 12 miles (19 km) west-southwest of Wilmington.According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 31,454. [5]
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.
As construction season inches closer, the Ohio Department of Transportation has announced it would be working on 950 road and bridge projects across the state during its 2024 construction program.
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 ...
State Route 7 Alternate (SR 7A) is a short 0.72-mile-long (1.16 km) [27] connecting loop signed as SR 7 [28] [29] that serves as a link from SR 7, US 40, and US 250 to I-70 in Bridgeport. Its western (southern) terminus is at SR 767 , and its eastern (northern) terminus is along US 40 at its intersection with US 250 and the northern terminus of ...
The Delaware State Highway Department (DSHD) was created on April 2, 1917 to construct and maintain a system of state highways across Delaware. As a result, the state took over construction of the DuPont Highway. [1] The DuPont Highway was completed in 1923 when the final section near Odessa was finished. [37]
In 1930 and again in 1932, the Delaware State Highway Department recommended giving numbers to state roads to supplement the existing U.S. Highway System. [2] [3] By 1936, Delaware began assigning numbers to state routes. [4] In 1956, the Interstate Highway System was created, with under 40 miles of Interstate highway legislated in New Castle ...