Talleyville 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 ...

New Castle County New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the ...

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, United States. It was a distinct

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

for the 1990 U.S. Census. - Talleyville is o
page 3
Compare to the school boundary maps.

History

The Talleys were a prominent family in the

Brandywine Hundred Brandywine Hundred (also known as North Wilmington) is an unincorporated subdivision of New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It is located to the north and northeast of the city of Wilmington. Hundreds were once used as a basis for represen ...

and provided the namesake of the community. In 1928, the Talleyville Fire Company was formed. The William Hicklen House was listed on the

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in 1983.

Geography

Talleyville is located at the intersection of

U.S. Route 202 U.S. Route 202 (US 202) is a spur route of U.S. Route 2, US 2. It follows a northeasterly and southwesterly direction stretching from Delaware in the south to Maine in the north and traveling through the states of Pennsylvania, N ...

, Mt. Lebanon Road, and Silverside Road to the north of Wilmington. It is one and a half miles from the Pennsylvania state border.

Demographics

The population of the

ZCTA ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics. These were introduced with the Census 2000 and continued with the 2010 Census and 5 year American Community ...

for ZIP code 19803 was 21,022 at the 2000 census.

Education

Talleyville is in the

Brandywine School District Brandywine School District (abbreviated BSD) is a public school district in northern New Castle County, Delaware in the United States. It serves Arden, Ardencroft, Ardentown, Bellefonte, Claymont, Edgemoor, Talleyville, - Talleyville i ...

. - Compare with the 1990 CDP map.

References

External links

* Unincorporated communities in New Castle County, Delaware Unincorporated communities in Delaware {{Delaware-geo-stub