Thousand Acre Swamp
Thousand Acre Swamp is in New Castle County, Delaware. Thousand Acre Swamp is situated nearby to the hamlet Shingle Landing, as well as near Thorntown.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Wetland
- Description: swamp in New Castle County, Delaware, United States of America
- Address: DE
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ashton Historic District and Baker Shoal Range Rear Light.
Ashton Historic District
Protected area
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
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.
Baker Shoal Range Rear Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Baker Shoal Range Rear Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Delaware, United States, on the Delaware River, near 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Penn and Delaware City.
Port Penn
Hamlet
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
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.
Delaware City
Village
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Delaware City is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The population was 1,885 as of 2020. It is a small port town on the eastern terminus of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and is the location of the Forts Ferry Crossing to Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island.
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.
Thousand Acre Swamp
- Categories: swamp and body of water
- Location: New Castle County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.53845° or 39° 32′ 18″ northLongitude
-75.59659° or 75° 35′ 48″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87F6GCQ3+99OpenStreetMap ID
node 368381240OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetland
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In Other Languages
“Thousand Acre Swamp” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Thousand Acre Swamp”
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Localities in the Area
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