New Castle Hundred

New Castle Hundred is an unincorporated subdivision of New Castle County, Delaware. Hundreds were once used as a basis for representation in the Delaware General Assembly, and while their names still appear on all real estate transactions, they presently have no meaningful use or purpose except as a geographical point of reference.

Boundaries and Formation

New Castle Hundred is that portion of New Castle County that lies south of the Christiana River, north of Red Lion Creek, and generally east of Salem Church Road, excepting that portion in the north included in Wilmington Hundred. It was one of the original hundreds in Delaware created in 1682 and was named for the town of New Castle then the only town of consequence anywhere on the Delaware River. When created it included some of the area now in Pencader Hundred and White Clay Hundred, both of which were split off in 1710, and some of the area in Wilmington Hundred, which was split off 1833. The city of New Castle, the Bear and Wilmington Manor Census Designated Places (CDP) and the community of Red Lion are in New Castle Hundred.

Development

New Castle Hundred is a highly developed suburban and commercial area with considerable industrial development along the Delaware River and near Wilmington.

Geography

Important geographical features, in addition to the Christiana River and Red Lion Creek, include the Delaware River, which forms its eastern boundary. It is in the coastal plain region with a low ridge separating the Delaware and Christiana Rivers.

Transportation

Important roads include portions of Interstate 95, Interstate 295, Interstate 495, the Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway (Delaware Route 1), the DuPont Highway (U.S. Route 13), the Pulaski Highway (U.S. Route 40), Basin Road (Delaware Route 141), New Castle Avenue and River Road (Delaware Route 9), Christiana Road (Delaware Route 273). A portion of the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad, ran westward from New Castle through the center of the hundred, and the old New Castle Railroad connected New Castle with the mainline of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, which became the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Municipalities and communities of New Castle County, Delaware, United States

County seat: Wilmington

Cities	Delaware City New Castle Newark Wilmington

Towns	Bellefonte Clayton‡ Elsmere Middletown Newport Odessa Smyrna‡ Townsend

Villages	Arden Ardencroft Ardentown

CDPs	Bear Brookside Claymont Edgemoor Glasgow Greenville Hockessin North Star Pike Creek Pike Creek Valley Wilmington Manor

Unincorporated communities	Ashland Augustine Beach Basin Corner Belvidere Biddles Corner Blackbird Boyds Corner Christiana Collins Beach Collins Park Corner Ketch Faulkland Farnhurst Flemings Landing Granogue Greenbank Hares Corner Henry Clay Holloway Terrace Kirkwood Landenberg Junction Marshallton Mathews Corners McClellandville Milford Crossroads Mill Creek Minquadale Mockingbird Hills Montchanin Mount Cuba Mount Pleasant Ogletown Pleasantville Port Penn Prices Corner Red Lion Rockland St. Georges Silverbrook Silview Southwood Stanton State Road Summit Bridge Talleyville Taylors Bridge Tybouts Corner Williamsburg Winterthur Wooddale Wrangle Hill Yorklyn

Hundreds	Appoquinimink Blackbird Brandywine Christiana Mill Creek New Castle Pencader Red Lion St. George's White Clay Creek Wilmington

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

State of Delaware

Dover (capital)

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Cities	Delaware City Dover Harrington Lewes Milford Newark New Castle Rehoboth Beach Seaford Smyrna Wilmington

Towns	Arden Ardencroft Ardentown Bellefonte Bethany Beach Bethel Blades Bowers Bridgeville Camden Cheswold Clayton Dagsboro Delmar Dewey Beach Ellendale Elsmere Farmington Felton Fenwick Island Frankford Frederica Georgetown Greenwood Hartly Henlopen Acres Houston Kenton Laurel Leipsic Little Creek Magnolia Middletown Millsboro Millville Milton Newport Ocean View Odessa Selbyville Slaughter Beach South Bethany Townsend Viola Woodside Wyoming

Counties	Kent New Castle Sussex

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