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Kenton, Delaware

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Kenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19938. It stands on Taylor Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kenton quadrangle. 215 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Kenton within Kent County

On record in Kenton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 27 shown

Every listing in Kent County

Population over time

3 figures

Kenton grew from 107 to 215 between 1880 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
1880107
2010261
2020215-46 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenton in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindKenton-Multiple wires blown down.
July 2017Heavy RainKenton-Just over two inches of rain fell at this DEOS.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindKenton-A convectively-driven wind gust brought down a tree onto wires in Kenton.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindKenton-A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees in Kenton.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindKenton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Whigville0.6 miles29
Underwood Corner1.5 miles29
Shorts Corner1.5 miles29
Bechers Brook1.8 miles29
Rolling Meadows1.8 miles29
Shaws Corner1.8 miles29
Seeneytown1.9 miles29
Seven Hickories1.9 miles29

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on KentonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q755764The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 214191. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.