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Nassau, Delaware
Intersection of Nassau Road and New Road
Intersection of Nassau Road and New Road
Nassau, Delaware is located in Delaware
Nassau, Delaware
Nassau, Delaware
Location in Delaware
Nassau, Delaware is located in the United States
Nassau, Delaware
Nassau, Delaware
Location in the United States
Country United States
State Delaware
County Sussex
Elevation
26 ft (8 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
19969
Area code(s) 302
GNIS feature ID 214371

Nassau is an unincorporated community in eastern Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It lies just off Delaware Route 1 west of the city of Lewes and northeast of the town of Georgetown, the county seat of Sussex County. Its elevation is 26 feet (8 m). It has a post office with the ZIP code 19969.

Nassau, like much of central Delmarva, is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Delaware Coast Line Railway passed through Nassau on its way to its customer in Lewes, SPI Pharma, and maintained a run-around track in Nassau to facilitate the moves to SPI Pharma, the locomotive using the run-around to then continue pushing the consist of tankcars and/or covered hoppers over the trackage between Nassau and Lewes to the end-of-track for the Lewes Branch at SPI Pharma, just outside the main entrance to Cape Henlopen State Park. The last train run was in 2017. The ROW is now a bike and pedestrian trail.

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