Nassau, Delaware

Unincorporated community in Delaware, United States

38°45′7″N 75°11′16″W / 38.75194°N 75.18778°W / 38.75194; -75.18778CountryUnited StatesStateDelawareCountySussexElevation

26 ft (8 m)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)ZIP code

19969

Area code302GNIS 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, SPI Pharma, 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. The last train run was in 2017. The ROW is now a bike and pedestrian trail.

References

^ ^a ^b "Nassau, Delaware". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved March 4, 2008.
^ Federal Writers' Project (2013), The WPA Guide to Delaware: The First State, Trinity University Press (reprint), p. 408, ISBN 9781595342072
^ Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 24.
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