State of Delaware, United States
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- Highest benchmark elevation in Delaware of 448 feet is located on Ebright Road at the Delaware-Pennsylvania State/Commonwealth boundary. The highest elevation in Delaware of 450 feet is located in a mobile home park just west of the aforementioned benchmark. The geographic center, or that point on which a surface of uniform thickness would balance, for the state is located in Kent County, 17.7 km (11 mi) south of Dover.
- Statehood: 7 December 1787. In 1610, Samuel Argoll discovered a cape near the entrance of a large bay and named it after Thomas West, Lord de la Warr, first colonial governor of Virginia. The name soon was written "Delaware" and was transferred to a bay, river, and later the colony of settlements west of the bay. (US-T131/1976/DOI - U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) News Release: Origin of Names of U S States)
- 39.000390639° 00' 01.4"N-75.499922475° 29' 59.7"W
- 838,549
- 9 m
- New Jersey NE
- Virginia SW
- Maryland W
- Pennsylvania NW
- 381563801
- Updated May 7, 2020