Fenwick Island, Delaware

Fenwick Island, Delaware Fenwick Island Light Fenwick Island Light Location in Sussex County and the state of Delaware.

Location in Sussex County and the state of Delaware.

Fenwick Island is positioned in Delaware Fenwick Island - Fenwick Island Fenwick Island is a coastal town in Sussex County, Delaware, USA.

The town is positioned on Fenwick Island, a barrier spit.

Fenwick Island and its neighbors to the north, Bethany Beach and South Bethany are popularly known as "The Quiet Resorts".

Fenwick Island, however, is somewhat less "quiet" than "the Bethanies" because it is immediately athwart the state line from Ocean City, Maryland, which has a reputation as a lively vacation resort.

Named after Thomas Fenwick, a planter from England who settled in Maryland, Fenwick Island lay in the part of Delaware which was claimed by Lord Baltimore and his heirs amid the Penn-Baltimore border dispute.

Contrary to prominent belief, the town does not sit on a barrier island but on a narrow peninsula which resembles a barrier island (unless one considers a narrow man-made boat canal well inland that joins White Creek to Little Assawoman Bay).

The town was an unincorporated region between South Bethany and Ocean City, Maryland until July 1953, when the Delaware General Assembly passed an act to incorporate the town.

Local sentiment demanded incorporation to prevent the relentless high-rise evolution of Ocean City from creeping north into Fenwick Island.

Fenwick Island is positioned at 38 27 44 N 75 03 05 W (38.4623346, -75.0512922). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), of which, 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (28.57%) is water.

Delaware Route 1 (Coastal Highway), which has its southern end at the Maryland border in Fenwick Island, serves as the chief north-south road in the town, heading north along the coast toward Bethany Beach and Rehoboth Beach.

Delaware Route 54 (Lighthouse Road) begins at DE 1 in Fenwick Island a block north of the state line and heads west toward Selbyville to furnish access from inland areas. Between May 15 and September 15, parking permits are required along all streets in Fenwick Island. DART First State provides bus service to Fenwick Island in the summer months along Beach Bus Route 208, which heads north to the Rehoboth Beach Park and Ride to connect to other Resort Transit routes and the Route 305 bus from Wilmington and south to the 144th Street Transit Center in Ocean City, Maryland a short distance south of the state line to connect to the Ocean City Beach Bus. Looking south at Fenwick Island beach Fenwick sailboats on southwest side of island Fenwick Island State Park The Town of Fenwick Island.

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