Nassau, Delaware
Nassau is an unincorporated community in eastern Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It lies just off Delaware Route 1 west of Lewes and northeast of the town of Georgetown, the county seat of Sussex County.[2] Its elevation is 26 feet (8 m).[1] Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 19969.[3]
Nassau | |
|---|---|
  Nassau Location within the state of Delaware  Nassau Nassau (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 38°45′7″N 75°11′16″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Delaware |
| County | Sussex |
| Elevation | 26 ft (8 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 19969 |
| Area code(s) | 302 |
| GNIS feature ID | 214371[1] |
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.
References
- "Nassau, Delaware". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 24.
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