Clayton
Clayton is a town in Kent and New Castle counties in the U.S. state of Delaware. Located almost entirely in Kent County, it is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,961 at the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 3,120 residents
- Description: town in Delaware, United States
- Also known as: “Clayton, DE”, “Clayton, Delaware”, “Jimtown”, “Salisbury”, and “Smyrna Station”
- Postal code: 19938
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clayton station and St. Joseph’s Industrial School.
Clayton station
Historic building
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Clayton Railroad Station is a historic railway station located at Clayton, Kent County, Delaware. It was built about 1855, and is a one-story, five-bay, brick, Italianate-style building.
St. Joseph’s Industrial School
Protected area
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St. Joseph's Industrial School is a historic former Black Catholic school and historic district in Clayton, Kent County, Delaware. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Byrd’s AME Church
Church
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Byrd's African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church on Smyrna Avenue in Clayton, Kent County, Delaware.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Smyrna and Smyrna Landing.
Smyrna
Town
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Smyrna is a town in Kent and New Castle counties in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is part of the Dover metropolitan statistical area. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2020, the population of the town is 12,883. Smyrna is situated 1½ miles east of Clayton.
Smyrna Landing
Hamlet
Smyrna Landing is an unincorporated community in Kent and New Castle counties of Delaware, United States. Smyrna Landing is located along Smyrna Landing Road at the crossing of Duck Creek, east of Smyrna. Smyrna Landing is situated 2½ miles northeast of Clayton.
Blackiston
Hamlet
Blackiston is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Delaware, United States. Blackiston is at the intersection of state routes 6 and 42, west of Clayton and northwest of Kenton. Blackiston is situated 4 miles west of Clayton.
Clayton
- Categories: town in the United States and human settlement
- Location: Kent County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Clayton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كلايتون”
- Basque: “Clayton”
- Bavarian: “Clayton, Delaware”
- Bavarian: “Clayton”
- Cebuano: “Clayton”
- Chechen: “Клейтон”
- Chinese: “Clayton”
- Chinese: “克萊頓”
- Croatian: “Clayton”
- Dutch: “Clayton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كلايتون”
- French: “Clayton”
- German: “Clayton”
- Gilaki: “کلیتن”
- Hebrew: “קלייטון”
- Hungarian: “Clayton”
- Irish: “Clayton”
- Italian: “Clayton”
- Japanese: “クレイトン”
- Ladin: “Clayton”
- Mazanderani: “کلیتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Clayton”
- Newari: “क्लेटन (डेलावेर)”
- Newari: “क्लेटन, डेलावेर”
- Newari: “क्लेटन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Clayton”
- Norwegian: “Clayton”
- Persian: “کلیتون، دلاور”
- Persian: “کلیتون”
- Polish: “Clayton”
- Portuguese: “Clayton”
- Russian: “Клейтон”
- Serbian: “Clayton”
- Serbian: “Klejton”
- Serbian: “Клејтон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Clayton, Delaver”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Clayton”
- South Azerbaijani: “کلایتون، دلاویر”
- Spanish: “Clayton (Delaware)”
- Spanish: “Clayton”
- Swedish: “Clayton, Delaware”
- Swedish: “Clayton”
- Tatar: “Клейтон”
- Ukrainian: “Клейтон”
- Urdu: “کلیٹون، ڈیلاویئر”
- Urdu: “کلیٹون”
- Uzbek: “Clayton”
- Uzbek: “Cлайтон”
- Volapük: “Clayton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Clayton, Delaware”
- Waray (Philippines): “Clayton”
- Welsh: “Clayton, Delaware”
- Welsh: “Clayton”
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