Port Penn
Port Penn is a census-designated place located in St. Georges Hundred, southern New Castle County, Delaware, United States, below the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on the west bank of the Delaware River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 162 residents
- Description: unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware
- Also known as: “Port Pena”, “Port Penn, DE”, and “Port Penn, Delaware”
- Postal code: 19731
Places of Interest
Highlights include Port Penn Historic District and Reedy Island.
Port Penn Historic District
Protected area
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Port Penn Historic District is a national historic district located at Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 48 contributing buildings and 5 contributing sites in the original eight block town plan and one block 19th century extension of Port Penn.
Reedy Island
Islet
Reedy Island is a small island in the middle of the channel of the Delaware River near its mouth on the Delaware Bay in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is about one mile east of Port Penn, Delaware and five miles southwest of Salem, New Jersey.
Ashton Historic District
Protected area
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Ashton Historic District is a national historic district located near Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It encompasses six contributing buildings associated with an original settler and his immediate descendants on early land grant in St.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Biddles Corner and Boyds Corner.
Biddles Corner
Hamlet
Biddles Corner is a location in St. George's Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Biddles Corner is at the intersection of U.S. Route 13 and Port Penn Road just east of the Biddles Corner toll plaza on the Delaware Route 1 toll road south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Biddles Corner is situated 4 miles west of Port Penn.
Boyds Corner
Hamlet
Boyds Corner is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Boyds Corner is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 13 and Delaware Route 896, north of Odessa. Boyds Corner is situated 4 miles west of Port Penn.
Oakwood Beach
Hamlet
Elsinboro Township is a township in Salem County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 1,001, a decrease of 35 from the 2010 census count of 1,036, which in turn reflected a decline of 56 from the 1,092 counted in the 2000 census. Oakwood Beach is situated 4 miles northeast of Port Penn.
Port Penn
Latitude
39.51678° or 39° 31′ 0″ northLongitude
-75.57659° or 75° 34′ 36″ westPopulation
162Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)United Nations Location Code
US P5POpen location code
87F6GC8F+P9OpenStreetMap ID
node 158502107OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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