Georgetown

According to the 2010 census, the population of the town is 6,422, an increase of 38.3% over the previous decade. Lewes, sited on the Delaware Bay, was designated as the first county seat. Georgetown, located more centrally in the county, was later designated as its seat for court. In 2000, more than one-third of the population was Hispanic and one-fifth was African American (including Haitians). The latter attracts attendees from around the country during race season. In 2007, a monument commemorating Sussex County Confederates and featuring the Confederate Battle Flag was constructed and installed at the Marvel Museum in Georgetown. As of 2022, the town council continues to fund a museum that flies the Confederate battle flag, which had lost state funding in 2019. Georgetown has attracted numerous immigrants from Haiti and Guatemala as workers. Some residents speak French or Haitian Creole, while many more have a primary language in English. It was the first colony in Delaware, founded by the Dutch in 1631, and it remained the only significant European settlement in the region for some time. It is the home of the WZB radio station and the Speedway, which has a half-day festival two days after Election Day. It also hosts the Return Day Day festival, which is held every year on the second day of the second week of October. The town is home to the Delaware State Senator George Mitchell, who was the lead commissioner in the 1791 purchase of 76 acres of land for the town.

History

Sussex County was not well defined until after 1760, following resolution of a dispute between William Penn's family and Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore. A dispute over borders had delayed discussion over the location of a county seat. Lewes continued to serve as the county seat throughout much of the 18th century, although it was inconvenient for the growing population to the west. After petitioning by western citizens of the county to the Delaware General Assembly, a law was passed on January 29, 1791, to centralize the location. Georgetown, located more centrally in the county, was later designated as its seat for court. Because of Delaware's status as a border state during the Civil War, men enlisted on both sides of the war, with some fighting for the Union and others for the Confederates. In 2007, a monument commemorating Sussex County Confederates and featuring the Confederate Battle Flag was constructed and installed at the Marvel Museum in Georgetown. As of 2022, the town council continues to fund a museum that flies the Confederate battle flag, which had lost state funding in 2019. The new community was named Georgetown in honor of the lead commissioner George Mitchell. The area within this circle is now listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. The county government hired ten commissioners to purchase land, build a courthouse and jail, and sell lots in an area at "James Pettyjohn's old field" The new location proved better as an administrative center; Georgetown is still said to be "sixteen miles from everywhere" in Sussex County.

Culture

Since the mid 20th century, the two most intense industries in Georgetown have been the Sussex County Courts and the raising and processing of chickens. Georgetown has a more diverse population than might be expected in a small Delaware inland town. In 2000 slightly more than one-third of the population was ethnic Hispanic and one-fifth was African American (including Haitians). Georgetown is the home of WZBH radio and the Georgetown Speedway, the latter of which attracts attendees from miles around during race season. Every two years, Georgetown hosts Return Day, a half-day-long parade and festival two days after Election Day. The winners of that year's elections parade in horse-drawn carriages around The Circle. Together with the losers and the chairs of the county's political parties, they ceremonially "bury the hatchet" in a tub of sand. The afternoon of Return Day is a holiday for county and state workers in Sussex County. The day's events are marked by a traditional ox feast, and the beginning of the next round of campaigns. It stems from colonial days, when the public would congregate in Georgetown to hear the results (because it would take that long to deliver the results to the courthouse by horseback from the state capital in Dover, Delaware) The winners and losers of each year's election parade around the town in carriages and "bury" their hatchet in a bucket of sand in the middle of the day. The town is home to the Delaware National Guard.

Architecture

Georgetown is unusual among Delaware municipalities as the town was constructed around a circle, instead of the more traditional park square. Located at "The Circle" are the Town Hall, state and county buildings, and the historic Sussex County Courthouse. The center of Georgetown's circle is a small green park with a fountain. Georgetown's oldest church, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, was constructed in 1844 and remodeled in 1881 in the early Victorian Gothic style. Other recognized historic properties are the Joseph T. Adams House, Brick Hotel, Peter S. Faucett House, Georgetown Coal Gasification Plant, Stella Pepper Gyles House, Judge's House and Law Office, Dr. John W. Messick House and Office, Old Sussex CountyCourthouse, David Carlton Pepper Farm, Redden Forest Lodge, Forester's House, Short Homestead, Thomas Sipple House, Gardiner Wright Mansion and McColley's Chapel, all listed on the NRHP. It is also home to a coal gasification plant, which was built in the 1950s and is still in use today. It was built on the site of a former coal mine, which is now owned by the Delaware Department of Energy and Natural Resources. It has a coal-fired power station that was completed in the 1970s. The town is home to the National Museum of American History, which opened in 1998. It contains a collection of more than 2,000 pieces of art, including the famous "Moby-Dick" sculpture by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Geography

Georgetown is located at 38°4124N 75°2308W (38.6901134, 75.3854728).According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.1 square miles (11 km²), all land. The town is located in the eastern part of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It has a population of 2,816. The population of the town was 2,788 at the 2010 census. It is one of the smallest towns in New Mexico, with a total population of 1,822. It was the largest town in the state in the 1990s, with 2,638 people living in the town of Georgetown, with 1,716 people living there in 2000. It also has the largest population of any town in New Hampshire, surpassing 2,800. It had the highest percentage of residents of any state in 2010, with 4,722 people. The city's population in 2000 was 3,817. It recorded a population growth rate of 0.7% in the year 2000. The highest rate of growth was in the 2000s, which was 0.8%. The town has the highest population growth rates in the nation in 2000, at 0.9%. It has the lowest population growth Rate (0.7%) in the last decade. The largest population loss rate (in 2000) was in 2008, at 1.7%. It is the second-largest city in New Jersey.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 4,643 people, 1,489 households, and 957 families residing in the town. The racial makeup of the town was 56.19% White, 20.87% African American, 2.07% Native American, 0.26% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 18.03% from other races, and 2.54% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 31.73% of the population. In 2000, 21.6% of Georgetown residents identified as being of Guatemalan heritage. This was the highest percentage of Guatemala Americans in any place in the country. The town's median income was $31,875, and the median income for a family was $37,925. About 20.9% of families and 25.1% of residents were below the poverty line, including 34.8% of those under age 18 and 8.4% ofThose age 65 or over. The average household size was 2.97 and the average family size was 3.29. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, there are 107.6 males. For each 100 females age 18 or over, there there are 109.5 males. The city's population was 1,123.9 inhabitants per square mile (433.9/km²). There were 1,591 housing units at an average density of 385.1 per squaremile (148.7/ km²).

Infrastructure

The main northsouth road in Georgetown is US 113, which heads south to Millsboro and Pocomoke City, Maryland. US 9 runs southwestnortheast through Georgetown on Market Street, heading southwest to Laurel and northeast to Lewes and the Cape MayLewes Ferry across the Delaware Bay. The Delaware Coastal Airport is located to the east of Georgetown, offering general aviation. The nearest airport with commercial air service is the Wicomico Regional Airport in Salisbury, Maryland, which is also the site of a solar farm. The Town of Georgetown Water Department provides water service to the town, operating three water plants. Delmarva Power, a subsidiary of Exelon, provides electricity to Georgetown. Chesapeake Utilities provides natural gas to the city. The Bruce A. Henry Solar Farm near Georgetown became operational in 2013, and expanded from 23 to 40 acres in 2020. The town is served by DART First State, which operates a microtransit service called DART Connect serving the Georgetown and Millsboro areas. It also operates a freight rail line called the Indian River Subdivision (the former DMV line) that runs northsouth through Georgetown. In Georgetown, the Del Marva Central Railroad's Lewes Industrial Track branches east from the IndianRiver Subdivision and heads east to Cool Spring. It is located on the former Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad (DMV) line, which ran from Harrington, Delaware to Franklin City, Virginia in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Travellers from New York or Philadelphia could take trains to Wilmington, whereupon they would take a train to Harrington.

Education

The Jack F. Owens campus of Delaware Technical Community College is located in Georgetown. It is in the Indian River School District. Sussex Central High School is also in the district. The town has a population of about 2,000. It was the site of the World War II Battle of the Bulge, which took place in 1864. It also hosted the Battle of Gettysburg, which occurred in 1866. The Battle was the first battle of the U.S. Civil War, which began in 1858. The battle was followed by the First World War, in which the Battle was fought from 1864 to 1875. The city is home to the Delaware Institute of Technology, which was founded in 1876. It has a campus in Georgetown, as well as a number of other locations in the state, including Wilmington, Wilmington, Newark and Smyrna, and the town's downtown area.

Air Quality, Water Quality, Superfund Sites & UV Index

The Air Quality index is in Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware = 25.1. These Air Quality index is based on annual reports from the EPA. Higher values are better (100=best). The number of ozone alert days is used as an indicator of air quality, as are the amounts of seven pollutants including particulates, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, lead, and volatile organic chemicals. The Water Quality Index is 43. A measure of the quality of an area’s water supply as rated by the EPA. Higher values are better (100=best). The EPA has a complex method of measuring the watershed quality, using 15 indicators such as pollutants, turbidity, sediments, and toxic discharges. The Superfund Sites Index is 40. Higher is better (100=best). Based upon the number and impact of EPA Superfund pollution sites in the county, including spending on the cleanup efforts. The UV Index in Georgetown = 3.9 and is a measure of an area's exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. This is most often a combination of sunny weather, altitude, and latitude. The UV Index has been defined by the WHO (www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/radiation-the-ultraviolet-(uv)-index) and is uniform worldwide.

Employed

The most recent city population of 7,134 individuals with a median age of 32.2 age the population grows by 8.28% in Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware population since 2000 and are distributed over a density of 1,420.55 residents per square mile of area (548.50/km²). There are average 3.01 people per household in the 1,591 households with an average household income of $42,264 a year. The unemployment rate in Alabama is 8.30% of the available work force and has dropped -1.64% over the most recent 12-month period and the projected change in job supply over the next decade based on migration patterns, economic growth, and other factors will increase by 28.42%. The number of physicians in Georgetown per 100,000 population = 184.2.

Weather

The annual rainfall in Georgetown = 44.3 inches and the annual snowfall = 12.5 inches. The annual number of days with measurable precipitation (over .01 inch) = 108. The average number of days per year that are predominantly sunny = 204. 87 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily high temperature for the month of July and 25.1 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily low temperature for the month of January. The Comfort Index (higher=better) is 44, where higher values mean a more pleasant climate. The Comfort Index measure recognizes that humidity by itself isn't the problem. (Have you noticed nobody ever complains about the weather being 'cold and humid?) It's in the summertime that we notice the humidity the most, when it's hot and muggy. Our Comfort Index uses a combination of afternoon summer temperature and humidity to closely predict the effect that the humidity will have on people.

Median Home Cost

The percentage of housing units in Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware which are owned by the occupant = 46.63%. A housing unit is a house, apartment, mobile home, or room occupied as separate living quarters. The average age of homes = 43 years with median home cost = $156,720 and home appreciation of -2.83%. This is the value of the years most recent home sales data. Its important to note that this is not the average (or arithmetic mean). The median home price is the middle value when you arrange all the sales prices of homes from lowest to highest. This is a better indicator than the average, because the median is not changed as much by a few unusually high or low values. The property tax rate of $4.43 shown here is the rate per $1,000 of home value. If for simplification for example the tax rate is $14.00 and the home value is $250,000, the property tax would be $14.00 x ($250,000/1000), or $3500. This is the 'effective' tax rate.

Study

The local school district spends $8,574 per student. There are 13.9 students for each teacher in the school, 1227 students for each Librarian and 307 students for each Counselor. 7.46% of the area’s population over the age of 25 with an Associate Degree or other 2-year college degree, 7.68% with a master’s degree, Ph.D. or other advanced college degree and 5.06% with high school diplomas or high school equivalency degrees (GEDs).