Newark, Delaware Newark, Delaware Location in New Castle County and the state of Delaware.
Location in New Castle County and the state of Delaware.
Newark is positioned in Delaware Newark - Newark Location inside the state of Delaware Newark (/ nu rk/ new-ark)[note 1] is a town/city in New Castle County, Delaware, 12 miles (19 km) west-southwest of Wilmington.
According to the 2010 Census, the populace of the town/city is 31,454. Newark is the home of the University of Delaware.
A grammar school, established by Francis Alison in 1743, moved from New London, Pennsylvania to Newark in 1765, becoming the Newark Academy.
Two of which, Read and Mc - Kean, went on to have schools titled after them in the state of Delaware: George Read Middle School and Thomas Mc - Kean High School.
The state granted a charter to a new school in 1833, which was called Newark College.
Newark Academy and Newark College joined together in the following year, becoming Delaware College.
The school was forced to close in 1859, but was resuscitated eleven years later under the Morrill Act when it became a joint venture between the State of Delaware and the school's Board of Trustees.
In 1913, pursuant to legislative Act, Delaware College came into sole ownership of the State of Delaware.
The school would be retitled the University of Delaware in 1921.
One of Newark's primary sources of employment and revenue was the Chrysler Newark Assembly plant which was assembled in 1951.
The plant stood for more than 50 years, providing jobs and revenue to the state of Delaware.
Newark is positioned at 39 41 01 N 75 44 59 W (39.6837226, 75.7496572). It is positioned directly east of the Maryland state line, adjoining to the unincorporated improve of Fair Hill, and is less than a mile south of the tripoint where Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania meet, known as the The Wedge.
Originally surrounded by farmland, Newark is now surrounded by housing developments in some directions, although farmland remains just over the state lines in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
To the north and west are small hills, but south and east of the city, the territory is flat (part of Newark falls in the Piedmont geological region and part of the town/city is in the Coastal Plain geological region, as is the majority of the territory in the State of Delaware).
Even with the fact that Newark is positioned roughly halfway between Philadelphia (approximately 45 miles (72 km) away) and Baltimore (approximately 55 miles (89 km) away) and is part of densely populated New Castle County, there is a large amount of enhance parkland over 12,000 acres (49 km2) encircling the city.
To the south is Iron Hill Park (part of the New Castle County Park System), to the west (in Cecil County, Maryland) is Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area, and to the North is White Clay Creek State Park and White Clay Creek Preserve (in Chester County, Pennsylvania).
Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area and much of White Clay Creek State Park consist of territory formerly owned by the Du Pont family that was later ceded to the states of Maryland and Delaware, in the order given.
Public education in Newark is managed by the Christina School District and the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District.
The Christina School District manages enhance education for Newark and environs and parts of Wilmington, Delaware.
Newark High School (grades 9-12) Delaware School for the Deaf (grades K-12) Newark Charter School is a state-chartered school offering grades K-12.
Main article: University of Delaware Newark is home to the University of Delaware (UD).
The school has programs in a broad range of subjects, but is probably best known for its business, chemical engineering, chemistry and biochemistry programs, drawing from the historically strong existence of the nation's chemical and pharmaceutical industries in the state of Delaware.
In 2006, UD's graduate engineering program was ranked number 11 in the country by The Princeton Review. Newark's Mainstreet is prominent among both the University of Delaware students as well as the inhabitants of Newark, offering many restaurant and boutique options.
Newark is a recognized center of US and global figure skating, mostly due to the many national, world, and Olympic champions (including many foreign nationals) that have trained at the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club (an autonomous club operating inside UD facilities) and at The Pond Ice Rink.
In 2009, Sporting News ranked Newark 192 in its list of the 400 Best Sports Cities. The University of Delaware offers 21 varsity sports, which compete in the NCAA Division I.
The athletic squads at Delaware are known as the Fightin' Blue Hens, titled after the Blue Hen of Delaware, the state bird of Delaware. The official mascot of the University of Delaware is You - Dee.
The team is the partner of the Philadelphia 76ers and play their home games at the Bob Carpenter Center in Newark on the University of Delaware campus.
Interstate 95, the chief interstate highway through the northeast urban seaboard corridor, passes to the south of Newark on the tolled Delaware Turnpike.
Delaware Route 896 serves as the chief north-south route through the Newark area, interchanging with I-95 to the south and closing north through the city, bypassing the University of Delaware ground to the west.
Delaware Route 72 runs north-south, bypassing Newark to the east.
Major east west highways through the Newark region include Delaware Route 273, which passes through the heart of Newark, Delaware Route 2 (Kirkwood Highway), which heads east to Wilmington, Delaware Route 4, which bypasses Newark to the south on the Christiana Parkway, and Delaware Route 279, which heads southwest towards Elkton, Maryland.
The closest airport to Newark is the Wilmington Airport in New Castle.
Newark has a Rail Station (Map, via Google Maps) positioned to the south of downtown near the University of Delaware ground that is serviced by both SEPTA and Amtrak on the Northeast Corridor.
Newark is also served by two freight barns s: Norfolk Southern, which provides freight service on the Northeast Corridor line and has a branch that splits to the south to run toward the Delmarva Peninsula and an interchange with the Delmarva Central Railroad, and CSX, which passes through the northern part of Newark along the Philadelphia Subdivision line.
Newark is served by DART First State bus routes No.
The University of Delaware also operates a bus system, available and no-charge to all students and those associated with the university.
Further information: List of University of Delaware citizens Joe Biden, former Delaware Senator; 47th Vice President of the United States Joe Flacco, former University of Delaware football player; current Baltimore Ravens quarterback Keeler, former University of Delaware football coach David Roselle, former President of the University of Delaware See also: List of newspapers in Delaware, List of airways broadcasts in Delaware, and List of tv stations in Delaware National Register of Historic Places listings in northern New Castle County, Delaware Not / nu rk/ new- rk as in Newark, New Jersey.
"The Delaware Enumeration State Data Center".
"University Library announces oral history of Chrysler's Newark Assembly Plant".
The University of Delaware, Office of Public Relations.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Newark, Delaware.
Wikisource has the text of a 1905 New International Encyclopedia article about Newark, Delaware.
Official Delaware Tourism Website's list of Newark Attractions Our Newark Delaware Website Municipalities and communities of New Castle County, Delaware, United States Categories: Newark, Delaware - Populated places established in 1694 - University suburbs in the United States - Cities in New Castle County, Delaware - Cities in Delaware - 1694 establishments in Delaware
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