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wine, Christiana, Red Clay, and Duck creeks. The surface is undulating; the 
soil is fertile. Area, 434 square miles. Population, 109,697; white, 93,454; 
negro, 16,197; foreign born, 12,916. County seat, Wilmington. The mean mag- 
netic declination in 1900 was 6° 05'; the mean annual rainfall, 45 inches; and the 
temperature, 50° 00'. The county is traversed by the Baltimore and Ohio, the 
Philadelphia and Reading, and the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington 
railroads. 
Newport; town in Newcastle County on Christiana Creek and on the Philadelphia, 
Baltimore and Washington Railroad. 
Northwest; branch of Smyrna River in Newcastle County. 
Noxontown; pond on headwaters of Appoquinimink Creek in Newcastle County. 
Oakel; village in Sussex County. 
Oakgrove; post village in Sussex County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash- 
ington Railroad. 
Oakley; post village in Sussex County on the Queen Anne's Railroad. 
Oceanview; post village in Sussex County near the ocean. 
Odessa; town in Newcastle County on Appoquinimink Creek. 
Omar; post village in Sussex County. 
Overbrook; post village in Sussex County on the Queen Anne's Railroad. 
Owens; post village in Sussex County on the Queen Anne's Railroad. 
Pearson; village in Kent County. 
Pepper; small creek emptying into Indian Bay in Sussex County. 
Pepper; village in Sussex County. 
Petersburg; village in Kent County. 
Porter; post village in Newcastle County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash- 
ington Railroad. 
Port Mahon; landing on shore of Delaware Bay in Kent County. 
Port Penn; town in Newcastle County. Population, 304. 
Price Corners; village in Newcastle County. 
Prime Hook; creek, rising in Sussex County and emptying into Delaware Bay. 
Providence; creek, a branch of Smyrna River in Newcastle County. 
Puncheon; branch of St. Jones Creek in Kent County. 
Ralph.; post village in Sussex County. 
Redden; post village in Sussex County on Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington 
Railroad. 
Red Lion; creek, a very small right-hand branch of Delaware River in Newcastle 
County. 
Redlion; post village in Newcastle County. 
Reedy; island at head of Delaware Bay. 
Rehoboth; bay, on the coast about 10 miles south of Cape Henlopen, separated from 
the Atlantic < >cean by a narrow peninsula. It connects on the south with Indian 
River Bay. 
Rehoboth; town in Sussex County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington 
and the Queen Anne's railroads. Population, 198. 
Reybold; station in Newcastle County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash- 
ington Railroad. 
Rising-sun; village in Kent County. 
Robbins; post village in Sussex County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash- 
ington Railroad. 
Robinsonville; post village in Sussex County. 
Rockland; post village in Newcastle County on Brandywine Creek. 
Roxana; post village in. Sussex County. 
St. Georges; town in Newcastle County. Population, 325. 
St. Johns Branch; river, one of the small head branches of Nanticoke River. 
