Sussex Shores is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Sussex County,

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, United States. Sussex Shores is located along the

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and

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, north of Bethany Beach and south of

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. Sussex Shores was built in the 1950s and was the first of several developments built to the north of Bethany Beach.

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Beaches of Delaware Unincorporated communities in Sussex County, Delaware Unincorporated communities in Delaware {{Delaware-geo-stub