The Flag of Delaware Delaware DEL -ə-wairstate in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States . It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey to its northeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state's name derives from the adjacent Delaware Bay , which in turn was named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , an English nobleman and the Colony of Virginia 's first colonial-era governor.
Delaware occupies the northeastern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula , and some islands and territory within the Delaware River . It is the 2nd smallest and 6th least populous state, but also the 6th most densely populated . Delaware's most populous city is Wilmington , and the state's capital is Dover , the 2nd most populous city in Delaware . The state is divided into three counties , the fewest number of counties of any of the 50 U.S. states; from north to south, the three counties are: New Castle County , Kent County , and Sussex County . The southern two counties, Kent and Sussex counties, historically have been predominantly agrarian economies. New Castle is more urbanized and is considered part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area that surrounds and includes Philadelphia , the nation's sixth most populous city . Delaware is considered part of the Southern United States by the U.S. Census Bureau , but the state's geography, culture, and history are a hybrid of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the country.
Before Delaware coastline was explored and developed by Europeans in the 16th century, the state was inhabited by several Native American tribes, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south. The state was first colonized by Dutch traders at Zwaanendael , near present-day Lewes, Delaware , in 1631. Delaware was one of the Thirteen Colonies that participated in the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War , in which the American Continental Army , led by George Washington , defeated the British , ended British colonization and established the United States as a sovereign and independent nation. On December 7, 1787, Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States , earning it the nickname "The First State". (Full article...
Entries here consist of Good and Featured articles, which meet a core set of high editorial standards. The Indian River Inlet Bridge Charles W. Cullen Bridge ) is a cable-stayed bridge located in Sussex County , Delaware , in the United States. It carries four lanes of Delaware Route 1 (DE 1) over the Indian River Inlet between the Indian River Bay and the Atlantic Ocean . The bridge also carries Delaware Bicycle Route 1 (Bike Route 1) across the inlet. The bridge is within Delaware Seashore State Park between Dewey Beach and Bethany Beach . The Indian River Inlet Bridge is maintained by the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT). The bridge is 2,600 feet (790 m) long and 107.66 feet (32.81 m) wide, with a span of 950 feet (290 m) and overhead clearance of 45 feet (14 m).
Prior to the current bridge, four other bridges have spanned the Indian River Inlet, opened in 1934, 1940, 1952, 1965, and 1976, the latter serving as a twin span to the 1965 one. All were known informally as the Indian River Inlet Bridge, and all but the first officially were named the Charles W. Cullen Bridge. The 1965 and 1976 bridges, of the
steel girdertype , were subject to
scouring from the inlet, leading to the need to replace them. Initial plans for a
tied-arch bridge over the inlet in 2004 were over budget, and 2006 plans for a 1,400-foot (427-meter) cable-stayed bridge were cancelled because of early construction and legal problems. Construction of the current, 2,600-foot (792-meter) bridge began in 2008 as part of a design-build project, with
Skanska awarded the contract to build the bridge. The current Indian River Inlet Bridge opened partially in January 2012 and completely in May 2012 at a cost of $150 million. (
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Wilmington Lenape : Paxahakink / Pakehakink) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware . The city was built on the site of Fort Christina , the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek , near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River . It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area (synonymous with the Philadelphia metropolitan area). Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton , Earl of Wilmington , who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain .
As of the
2020 census , the city's population was 70,898. Wilmington is part of the
Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area (which also includes
Philadelphia ,
Reading ,
Camden , and other urban areas), which had a 2020 core
metropolitan statistical area population of 6,228,601, representing the seventh largest metropolitan region in the nation, and a
combined statistical area population of 7.366 million. (
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The following are images from various Delaware-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Fort Delaware , painted circa 1870 by
Seth Eastman . (from
History of Delaware )
Image 2 Seaford (from
Delaware )
Image 3 Joe Biden , the 46th president of the United States and a
U.S. senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009 (from
Delaware )
Image 4 The Blackbird Pond on the
Blackbird State Forest Meadows Tract in
New Castle County, Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 5 Dover (from
Delaware )
Image 6 Fort Delaware State Park on
Pea Patch Island , a popular spot during the spring and summer; a ferry takes visitors to the fort from nearby
Delaware City . (from
Delaware )
Image 7 Delaware was named for
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , an English merchant and governor of the
Colony of Virginia from 1610 to 1618. (from
History of Delaware )
Image 8 Picking Peaches in Delaware , an illustration in an 1878 issue of
Harper's Weekly (from
Delaware )
Image 11 The Blackbird Pond on the
Blackbird State Forest Meadows Tract in
New Castle County, Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 17 Newark (from
Delaware )
Image 19 The Köppen climate classification for Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 21 Nautical chart of the
Dutch colony Zwaanendael and Godyn's Bay (
Delaware Bay ), 1639 (from
History of Delaware )
Image 23 Delaware's
license plate design, introduced in 1959, is the longest-running one in U.S. history. (from
Delaware )
Image 24 A field north of Fox Den Road along the Lenape Trail in
Middle Run Valley Natural Area (from
Delaware )
Image 27 Fort Delaware State Park on
Pea Patch Island , a popular spot during the spring and summer; a ferry takes visitors to the fort from nearby
Delaware City . (from
Delaware )
Image 28 Rehoboth Beach , a popular vacation spot during the summer months (from
Delaware )
Image 29 A two-shilling, six-pence banknote issued by Delaware in 1777 (from
Delaware )
Image 30 Map of Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 32 The Köppen climate classification for Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 33 Map of Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 34 Rehoboth Beach , a popular vacation spot during the summer months (from
Delaware )
Image 35 Dover (from
Delaware )
Image 36 A two-shilling, six-pence banknote issued by Delaware in 1777 (from
Delaware )
Image 37 Joe Biden , the 46th president of the United States and a
U.S. senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009 (from
Delaware )
Image 38 Newark (from
Delaware )
Image 40 The population density map for Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 42 Seaford (from
Delaware )
Image 43 The population density map for Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 44 Ethnic origins in Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 45 Delaware's
license plate design, introduced in 1959, is the longest-running one in U.S. history. (from
Delaware )
Image 47 Ethnic origins in Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 49 Picking Peaches in Delaware , an illustration in an 1878 issue of
Harper's Weekly (from
Delaware )
Image 51 A field north of Fox Den Road along the Lenape Trail in
Middle Run Valley Natural Area (from
Delaware )
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... that Dave Frederick Sussex County humorist-teacher-writer-radio-host-philosopher dude"?
... that Delaware weekly newspaper The Faulkland Quiz
... that Delaware politician Armwell Long George Washington ? (See discussions regarding this hook at Talk:Armwell Long .)
... that Paul Chadick
... that the 2024 inductees to the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame include a man with Down syndrome "average gymnast" "preeminent sportswriter" "greatest high hurdler" "inventor" 10-year-old champion gymnast field hockey player pro baseball player
Entries here consist of Good articles , which meet a core set of high editorial standards. Delaware Route 41 DE 41 ) is a highway in northwestern New Castle County , Delaware . Its southern terminus is at DE 2 and DE 62 in Prices Corner . From DE 2, the road passes through suburban areas along Newport Gap Pike, intersecting DE 48 in Hockessin and becoming Lancaster Pike. Its northern terminus is the Pennsylvania state line just north of Hockessin, and the road continues on as Pennsylvania Route 41 (PA 41) to Gap .
DE 41 was originally chartered as the Gap and Newport Turnpike in the 19th century. In the 1920s and 1930s, this road was upgraded to a state highway. DE 41 was designated by 1936 to run from
U.S. Route 40 (US 40, now
DE 9 /
DE 273 ) in
New Castle north to the Pennsylvania border in Hockessin. In the 1950s,
DE 141 became concurrent with the route from New Castle to north of
Newport . DE 41 was removed from the DE 141 concurrency in the 1970s and was realigned to follow DE 2 east to an interchange with DE 141 in the 1980s, with the old alignment south of DE 2 becoming part of DE 62. In 2015, the southern terminus was cut back to its current location, removing the
concurrency with DE 2. (
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Largest cities or towns in Delaware 2018 United States Census Bureau Estimate
Rank
Name
County
Municipal pop.
Wilmington Dover
1
Wilmington New Castle 70,635
Newark Middletown
2
Dover Kent 38,079
3
Newark New Castle 33,673
4
Middletown New Castle 22,582
5
Smyrna New Castle/Kent 11,580
6
Milford Kent/Sussex 11,353
7
Seaford Sussex 7,861
8
Georgetown Sussex 7,427
9
Elsmere New Castle 5,981
10
New Castle New Castle 5,529
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