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  2. New Castle County, Delaware - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.nccde.org. New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, [2] making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the state's population of 989,948. The county seat is Wilmington, [3] which is ...

  3. List of counties in Delaware - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of hundreds of Delaware - Wikipedia

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    Murderkill Hundred. Felton. Murderkill River. West Dover Hundred. 1859. Dover Hundred. Hartly. City of Dover. St. Jones Hundred was created in 1682, and was renamed Dover Hundred in 1823; Dover Hundred was subsequently divided into East Dover Hundred and West Dover Hundred in 1859.

  5. New Castle, Delaware - Wikipedia

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    10-50800. GNIS feature ID. 214379 [2] Website. newcastlecity.delaware.gov. New Castle is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The city is located six miles (10 km) south of Wilmington and is situated on the Delaware River. As of 2020, the city's population was 5,551. [3]

  6. Wilmington, Delaware - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  7. National Register of Historic Places listings in southern New ...

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    It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]

  8. New warehouse proposed in Delaware County creates concern ...

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    Chris O'Connell. August 22, 2024 at 10:41 PM. NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. - Some neighbors in a Delaware County community are worried a proposed logistics warehouse will ruin their neighborhood. Thursday ...

  9. New Sweden - Wikipedia

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    New Sweden. New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) [1] was a colony of the Swedish Empire along the lower reaches of the Delaware River between 1638 and 1655 in present-day Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the United States. [2] Established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great power, New Sweden formed part of the ...