Hockessin

Hockessin, is a small, rapidly growing town in northern New Castle County, right on the border with Pennsylvania. Centered between two major highways, Route 7, or Limestone Road, and Route 41, Lancaster Pike, Hockessin offers a quiet reprieve for travelers and residents alike.
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  • Town with 13,500 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 256 feet (78 metres)
  • Description: census designated place in New Castle County, Delaware, United States
  • Postal code: 19707
  • Also known as
    “Hocesion”
    “Hockessin, DE”
    “Hockessin, Delaware”
    “Hockessing”
    “Occasian”
    “Occasion”
    “Ockession”
    “Okesan”
    “Okeshion”
    “Okesian”
    “Okession”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Public School No. 29 and Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yorklyn and Brackenville.
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is an unincorporated community in northern , United States.
is an unincorporated community in , United States.
Hockessin is a census-designated place in , United States.

Hockessin

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Latitude
39.7875° or 39° 47′ 15″ north
Longitude
-75.6966° or 75° 41′ 48″ west
UN/LOCODE
US HCS
Open location code
87F6Q8Q3+29
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158578175
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4142969
Wiki­data ID
Q254769

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Hockessin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هوكيسين”
  • Basque: “Hockessin”
  • Belarusian: “Гокесын”
  • Catalan: “Hockessin”
  • Cebuano: “Hockessin”
  • Chechen: “Гокессин”
  • Chinese: “郝凱森”
  • Chinese: “霍克辛”
  • Croatian: “Hockessin”
  • Czech: “Hockessin (Delaware)”
  • Czech: “Hockessin”
  • Danish: “Hockessin”
  • Dutch: “Hockessin”
  • French: “Hockessin”
  • German: “Hockessin”
  • Gilaki: “هوکسن”
  • Hungarian: “Hockessin”
  • Interlingua: “Hockessin”
  • Irish: “Hockessin”
  • Italian: “Hockessin”
  • Japanese: “ホケッシン”
  • Japanese: “ホッケシン”
  • Ladin: “Hockessin”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hockessin”
  • Newari: “होकेसिन, डेलावेर”
  • Newari: “होकेसिन”
  • Persian: “هاکسین، دلاویر”
  • Persian: “هاکسین”
  • Polish: “Hockessin”
  • Portuguese: “Hockessin”
  • Russian: “Хокесин”
  • Russian: “Хокессин”
  • Serbian: “Hockessin”
  • Serbian: “Хокесин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hockessin, Delaver”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hockessin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هاکسین، دلاویر”
  • Spanish: “Hockessin (Delaware)”
  • Spanish: “Hockessin”
  • Swedish: “Hockessin”
  • Tatar: “Гокессин”
  • Ukrainian: “Гокессін”
  • Urdu: “ہوکیسن، ڈیلاویئر”
  • Uzbek: “Hockessin”
  • Volapük: “Hockessin”

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