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Chadds Ford

Chadds Ford is a township of 3,700 people on the western outskirts of in , . The Chadds Ford community was named after John Chadds, who began operating a ferry there in 1737.
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  • Type: Town with 3,640 residents
  • Description: township of Pennsylvania
  • Also known as: “Birmingham Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania”, “Chad’s Ford”, “Chadd Ford”, “Chadds Ford Township”, “Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania”, “Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania”, “Chaddsford”, and “Chads Ford”
  • Postal code: 19317

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brandywine Museum of Art and Christian C. Sanderson Museum.

Museum
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The is a museum of regional and American art located on U.S. Route 1 in on the banks of the Brandywine Creek.

Museum
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The , or simply the Sanderson Museum, is a non-profit museum of local historical artifacts in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, located in the Chadds Ford Historic District.

Heritage site
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The is the only formally recognized in the US state of . It is located in near and the state line with .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chadds Ford and Beaver Valley.

Village
is a census-designated place in and counties, , United States, comprising the unincorporated communities of and Knoll.

Hamlet
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straddles the and border in and . An unincorporated place name, it is traversed by several streams which drain to Beaver Run which itself empties into the Brandywine River.

Hamlet
New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the state's population of 989,948. is situated 3 miles southeast of Chadds Ford.

Chadds Ford

Latitude
39.8645° or 39° 51′ 52″ north
Longitude
-75.5683° or 75° 34′ 6″ west
Population
3,640
Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US CFR
Open location code
87F6VC7J+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12588766403
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4557084
Wiki­data ID
Q531303
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Chadds Ford” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Չադս Ֆորդ Թաունշիպ”
  • Chinese: “查茲福”
  • Chinese: “查茲福鎮”
  • Czech: “Chadds Ford Township”
  • Dutch: “Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania”
  • French: “Chadd’s Ford”
  • German: “Chadds Ford Township”
  • Hebrew: “צ’אדס פורד”
  • Hungarian: “Chadds Ford Township”
  • Irish: “Chadds Ford”
  • Italian: “Chadds Ford”
  • Japanese: “チャッズ・フォード・タウンシップ”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chadds Ford Township”
  • Slovak: “Chadds Ford Township”
  • Slovenian: “Chadds Ford Township”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Chadds Ford”
  • Swedish: “Chadds Ford Township”
  • Ukrainian: “Чаддс-Форд Тауншип”
  • Ukrainian: “Чеддс-Форд”
  • Urdu: “برمنگھم ٹاؤن شپ، ڈیلاویئر کاؤنٹی، پنسلوانیا”
  • Urdu: “برمنگھم ٹاؤن شپ”
  • Vietnamese: “Xã Chadds Ford, Quận Delaware, Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “Xã Chadds Ford”
  • Welsh: “Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania”
  • Welsh: “Chadds Ford Township”
  • “Chadds Ford Township”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Chadds Ford”. Photo: Daderot, CC0.