Nassau, Delaware

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Nassau, Delaware
Unincorporated community
Nassau is located in Delaware
Nassau
Nassau
Location within the state of Delaware
Coordinates: 38°45′7″N 75°11′16″W / 38.75194°N 75.18778°W / 38.75194; -75.18778Coordinates: 38°45′7″N 75°11′16″W / 38.75194°N 75.18778°W / 38.75194; -75.18778
CountryUnited States
StateDelaware
CountySussex
Elevation
26 ft (8 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
19969
Area code(s)302
GNIS feature ID214371[1]

Nassau is an unincorporated community in eastern Sussex County, Delaware, United States.[2] It lies just off Delaware Route 1 west of the city of Lewes and northeast of the town of Georgetown, the county seat of Sussex County.[3] Its elevation is 26 feet (8 m).[1] It has a post office with the ZIP code 19969.[4]

Nassau, like much of central Delmarva, is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Delaware Coast Line Railway passed through Nassau on its way to its customer in Lewes, , and maintained a run-around track in Nassau to facilitate the moves to SPI Pharma, the locomotive using the run-around to then continue pushing the consist of tankcars and/or covered hoppers over the trackage between Nassau and Lewes to the end-of-track for the Lewes Branch at SPI Pharma, just outside the main entrance to Cape Henlopen State Park.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Nassau, Delaware". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
  2. ^ Federal Writers' Project (2013), The WPA Guide to Delaware: The First State, Trinity University Press (reprint), p. 408, ISBN 9781595342072
  3. ^ Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 24.
  4. ^ Zip Code Lookup

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