Sussex County
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- Type: county of Delaware with 237,000 residents
- Description: county in Delaware, United States
- Also known as: “Hoere Kill County”, “Southern Delaware”, “Sussex”, “Sussex County, DE”, and “Sussex County, Delaware”
- Neighbors: Rural Worcester County
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sussex County Airport and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Sussex County Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: FlugKerl2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Delaware Coastal Airport is a public use airport in unincorporated Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Owned by the Sussex County Council, it is located two nautical miles southeast of the central business district of Georgetown.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Church
St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 122 East Pine Street in Georgetown, Delaware, United States. The congregation started in 1794 but this brick building was completed in 1844. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is situated 2½ miles west of Sussex County.
Old Sussex County Courthouse
Courthouse
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Old Sussex County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1793, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame structure in a late Georgian style. Old Sussex County Courthouse is situated 2½ miles west of Sussex County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Georgetown and Wood Branch.
Georgetown
Photo: Calvin Beale, Public domain.
Georgetown is a town of 7,000 people in Delaware. It is known for its unusual town layout and for its many historic buildings. It is also the county seat for Sussex County.
Wood Branch
Hamlet
Wood Branch is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Wood Branch is southeast of Georgetown.
Stockley
Hamlet
Stockley is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Stockley is southeast of Georgetown. Stockley is situated 3 miles south of Sussex County.
Sussex County
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Sussex County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sussex County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة سوسكس”
- Armenian: “Սասեքս շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Sussex”
- Basque: “Sussex konderria”
- Basque: “Sussexeko konderria”
- Bavarian: “Sussex County, Delaware”
- Bavarian: “Sussex County”
- Bishnupriya: “সাসেক্স কাউন্টি, ডেলাওয়্যার”
- Bishnupriya: “সাসেক্স কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Съсекс”
- Catalan: “comtat de Sussex”
- Cebuano: “Sussex County”
- Chechen: “Сассекс (гуо, Делавэр)”
- Chechen: “Сассекс”
- Chinese: “Sussex Kūn”
- Chinese: “苏塞克斯县”
- Chinese: “萨塞克斯县”
- Chinese: “蘇塞克斯縣”
- Cornish: “Konteth Sussex, Delaware”
- Cornish: “Konteth Sussex”
- Danish: “Sussex County”
- Dutch: “Sussex County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Sussex”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Sussex”
- Esperanto: “Sussex County”
- Estonian: “Sussexi maakond”
- Finnish: “Sussexin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Sussex”
- French: “Comté de Sussex”
- French: “Sussex County”
- Galician: “Condado de Sussex, Delaware”
- Galician: “Condado de Sussex”
- Georgian: “სასექსის ოლქი”
- German: “Sussex County”
- Gilaki: “ساسکس ٚ شأرستان (دلأویر)”
- Gilaki: “ساسکس ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Σάσσεξ”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Σάσσεξ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז סאסקס”
- Hungarian: “Sussex megye”
- Indonesian: “County Sussex, Delaware”
- Indonesian: “County Sussex”
- Irish: “Contae Sussex, Delaware”
- Irish: “Contae Sussex”
- Italian: “contea di Sussex”
- Italian: “Contea di Sussex”
- Italian: “Sussex County”
- Japanese: “サセックス郡”
- Korean: “서식스군”
- Low German: “Sussex County”
- Marathi: “ससेक्स काउंटी, डेलावेर”
- Marathi: “ससेक्स काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “ساسکس شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sussex Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sussex Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Sussex County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sussex County i Delaware”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sussex County”
- Norwegian: “Sussex County”
- Ossetian: “Сассекс (зылд, Делавэр)”
- Ossetian: “Сассекс”
- Persian: “شهرستان ساسکس، دلاویر”
- Persian: “شهرستان ساسکس”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Sussex”
- Portuguese: “condado de Sussex”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Sussex”
- Portuguese: “Sussex County”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Sussex, Delaware”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Sussex”
- Russian: “Сассекс”
- Sardinian: “contea de Sussex”
- Scots: “Sussex Coonty”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sussex County”
- Serbian: “Okrug Saseks”
- Serbian: “Sussex County”
- Serbian: “Округ Сасекс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sussex County, Delaware”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sussex County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Sussex”
- Slovenian: “Sussex County”
- Spanish: “condado de Sussex”
- Spanish: “Condado de Sussex”
- Spanish: “Sussex County”
- Swedish: “Sussex County, Delaware”
- Swedish: “Sussex County”
- Tatar: “Сассекс (округ, Делавэр)”
- Tatar: “Сассекс”
- Turkish: “Sussex County, DE”
- Turkish: “Sussex County, Del.”
- Turkish: “Sussex County, Delaware”
- Turkish: “Sussex County”
- Turkish: “Sussex ilçesi, DE”
- Turkish: “Sussex ilçesi, Del.”
- Turkish: “Sussex ilçesi, Delaware”
- Turkish: “Sussex ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Сассекс”
- Urdu: “سسیکس کاؤنٹی، ڈیلاویئر”
- Urdu: “سسیکس کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Sussex”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Sussex, Delaware”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Sussex”
- Welsh: “Sussex County, Delaware”
- Welsh: “Sussex County”
- Western Panjabi: “سسکس کاؤنٹی”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Union Cemetery and Catfish Bridge.
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