Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Delaware
- County
- Sussex
- Founded
- 1763 (263 years ago) ( 1763 ) (as Head of Broadkiln)
- Incorporated
- March 17, 1865 (161 years ago) ( 1865-03-17 )
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- John R. Collier (NP)
- Town manager
- Kristy Rogers
- Total
- 1.89 sq mi (4.89 km )
- Land
- 1.79 sq mi (4.63 km )
- Water
- 0.10 sq mi (0.26 km )
- Elevation
- 10 ft (3.0 m)
- Density
- 1,842.4/sq mi (711.35/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 10-48330
- Website
- milton .delaware .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Milton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Sussex County
- Population
- 3291
- Area
- 4.924223
- Elevation
- 4
- Official website
- milton.delaware.gov
- Image
- 326 Union Milton Sussex Co DE.JPG
- Households
- 1314
- Dialing code
- 302
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- postal code
- 19968
- Commons category
- Milton, Delaware
- inception
- 1763-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 5.1698
- per capita income
- 46607
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Encyclopedic overview
Milton is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States, on the Delmarva Peninsula. It is located on the Broadkill River, which empties into Delaware Bay. The population was 3,291 at the 2020 census.
It is part of the rapidly growing Cape Region and lies within the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Delaware Route 5 passes through Milton.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Milton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.