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.
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
AspendaleNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
Thomas Attix Houselisted 1983
Benjamin Blackiston Houselisted 1983
W. D. Burrows Houselisted 1983
Clark-Pratt Houselisted 1983
Cooper Houselisted 1973
Thomas Davis Houselisted 1983
N. C. Downs Houselisted 1983
Green Mansion Houselisted 1983
Hoffecker-Lockwood Houselisted 1983
Alfred L. Hudson Houselisted 1983
Kenton Historic Districtlisted 1983
Population over time
3 figuresKenton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 107 | |
| 2010 | 261 | |
| 2020 | 215 | -46 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1920 USGS Dover quadrangle1:125000
- 1926 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:48000
- 1930 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500
- 1931 USGS Wyoming quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Kenton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Dover quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Kenton quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
5 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenton | - | Multiple wires blown down. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Kenton | - | Just over two inches of rain fell at this DEOS. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenton | - | A convectively-driven wind gust brought down a tree onto wires in Kenton. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenton | - | A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees in Kenton. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenton | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whigville | 0.6 miles | 29 | |
| Underwood Corner | 1.5 miles | 29 | |
| Shorts Corner | 1.5 miles | 29 | |
| Bechers Brook | 1.8 miles | 29 | |
| Rolling Meadows | 1.8 miles | 29 | |
| Shaws Corner | 1.8 miles | 29 | |
| Seeneytown | 1.9 miles | 29 | |
| Seven Hickories | 1.9 miles | 29 |
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 Kenton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q755764 | The 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.














