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Kent County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of the 2020 census, the population was 181,851, making it the least populous county in Delaware. [1] The county seat is Dover, [2] the state capital of Delaware. It is named for Kent, an English county. [3]
Sussex County Dover: 1 Kent County: 19901 Dover Air Force Base: 1 Kent County: 19901 Dover Base Hospital: 1 Kent County Dover Base Housing: 1 Kent County Doverbrook Gardens: 1 Kent County: 19901 Downs Chapel: 1 Kent County: 19938 Drawbridge: 1 Sussex County Drummond North: 1 New Castle County: 19711 Dublin Hill: 1 Sussex County Dunleith: 1 New ...
East of Dover on S. Little Creek Rd. Dover: 142: Victorian Dover Historic District: Victorian Dover Historic District: July 16, 1979 : Roughly bounded by Silver Lake, St. Jones River, North and Queen Sts.
Dover (/ ˈ d oʊ v ər / DOH-vər) is the capital and the second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware. [3] It is also the county seat of Kent County and the principal city of the Dover metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of the Philadelphia–Wilmington–Camden, PA–NJ–DE–MD, combined statistical area.
The largest Amish settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and adjacent counties followed by Holmes and adjoining counties in northeast Ohio, about 78 miles south of Cleveland. Third in size is the settlement in Elkhart , LaGrange and surrounding counties in northeastern Indiana which is geographically merging with the Nappanee settlement ...
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 is home to an Amish community which resides west of Dover in Kent County, consisting of nine church districts and about 1,650 people. The Amish first settled in Kent County in 1915. In recent years, increasing development has led to the decline in the number of Amish living in the community. [114] [115] [116]
Pearson's Corner is located in West Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, approximately ten miles west of Dover. What is now Kent County was originally part of the Whorekill County, as it was named by early Dutch settlers. It became an independent territory under the name St. Jones County in 1680 and was transferred to William Penn in 1682.