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New Castle County

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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  • Type: Town with 13,500 residents
  • Description: census designated place in New Castle County, Delaware, United States
  • Also known as: “Hocesion”, “Hockessin, DE”, “Hockessin, Delaware”, “Hockessing”, “Occasian”, “Occasion”, “Ockession”, “Okesan”, “Okeshion”, “Okesian”, and “Okession”
  • Postal code: 19707

Places of Interest

Highlights include Public School No. 29 and Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse.

Heritage site
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, also known as Lamborn Library, is a historic building located at Hockessin, . It was built in 1870 as a one-room school; a second floor and classroom was added about 1890. is a two-story, brick building on a stone foundation with basement.

Church
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is a historic Quaker meeting house and national historic district located at 1501 Old Wilmington Road in Hockessin, , in the U.S. state of .

Protected area
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is a national historic district located near , in . It encompasses 9 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure that were mostly between 1890 and 1910 and related to the Auburn Mill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yorklyn and Brackenville.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated community in northern , , United States. It lies along Delaware Route 82 northwest of the city of , the county seat of New Castle County.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. is located at the intersection of Road and Old Wilmington Road, east of Hockessin.

Hamlet
Hockessin is a census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 13,478 at the 2020 Census.

Hockessin

Latitude
39.7876° or 39° 47′ 15″ north
Longitude
-75.6966° or 75° 41′ 48″ west
Population
13,500
Elevation
256 feet (78 metres)
United Nations Location Code
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: “Hockessin”
  • 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: “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”
  • Uzbek: “Hockessin”
  • Volapük: “Hockessin”

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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 “Hockessin”. Photo: Cschroeder999, CC BY-SA 3.0.