Claymont
Claymont is a town in northern Delaware. A largely blue-collar suburb of Wilmington, its borders are not clearly defined; it is generally accepted to have about 10,000 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 9,900 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Delaware, United States
- Also known as: “Claymont, DE”, “Claymont, Delaware”, “Naaman’s”, “Naaman’s Creek”, and “Naamans Corner”
- Postal code: 19703
Places of Interest
Highlights include Claymont Stone School and Claymont station.
Claymont Stone School
Heritage site
The Claymont Stone School, also known as Naaman's Creek School #1, is a historic schoolhouse built in 1805, on land donated by Founding Father John Dickinson, in Claymont, Delaware, on the Philadelphia Pike just south of the Darley House.
Claymont station
Railway station
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Claymont station is a station on the Northeast Corridor in Claymont, Delaware. Claymont has two high-level side platforms with a pedestrian bridge over the tracks.
Archmere Academy
School
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Archmere Academy is a private Catholic college preparatory school in Claymont, Delaware, United States. 514 students were enrolled for the 2020–21 academic year. The academy is co-educational and independent, though located within the Diocese of Wilmington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arden and Ardencroft.
Arden
Village
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Arden is a village in New Castle County, Delaware, United States, founded in 1900 as a radical Georgist single-tax community by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect William Lightfoot Price.
Ardencroft
Village
Ardencroft is a village in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2020 census, the population of the village is 226. The village was founded in 1950 as an outgrowth of Arden and Ardentown with a conceptual lifestyle based on Henry George's single tax movement and William Morris's arts and crafts principles.
Boothwyn
Hamlet
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Boothwyn is a census-designated place in Upper Chichester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,933 at the 2010 census, down from 5,206 at the 2000 census. Boothwyn is situated 2½ miles northeast of Claymont.
Claymont
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: New Castle County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.8001° or 39° 48′ 1″ northLongitude
-75.4612° or 75° 27′ 40″ westPopulation
9,900Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)United Nations Location Code
US CLAOpen location code
87F6RG2Q+3GOpenStreetMap ID
node 158464096OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Claymont” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كلايمونت”
- Basque: “Claymont”
- Bavarian: “Claymont”
- Catalan: “Claymont”
- Cebuano: “Claymont”
- Chechen: “Клеймонт”
- Chinese: “Claymont”
- Chinese: “克萊蒙特”
- Croatian: “Claymont (Delaver)”
- Croatian: “Claymont”
- Dutch: “Claymont”
- French: “Claymont”
- German: “Claymont”
- Gilaki: “کلیمانت (دلاویر)”
- Gilaki: “کلیمانت”
- Hebrew: “קליימונט”
- Irish: “Claymont”
- Italian: “Claymont”
- Japanese: “クレイモント”
- Ladin: “Claymont”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Claymont”
- Newari: “क्लेमोन्ट, डेलावेर”
- Newari: “क्लेमोन्ट”
- Persian: “کلیمونت، دلاویر”
- Persian: “کلیمونت”
- Polish: “Claymont”
- Portuguese: “Claymont”
- Russian: “Клеймонт”
- Serbian: “Claymont”
- Serbian: “Клејмонт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Claymont, Delaver”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Claymont”
- Slovak: “Claymont”
- Slovenian: “Claymont”
- South Azerbaijani: “کلیمونت، دلاویر”
- Spanish: “Claymont (Delaware)”
- Spanish: “Claymont”
- Swedish: “Claymont, Delaware”
- Swedish: “Claymont”
- Tatar: “Клеймонт”
- Ukrainian: “Клеймонт”
- Uzbek: “Claymont”
- Uzbek: “Cлаймонт”
- Volapük: “Gwinhurst”
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