Harbeson is an unincorporated community in east central Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 9/Delaware Route 404 and Delaware Route 5, east of the town of Georgetown, the county seat of Sussex County. Its elevation is 36 feet (11 m). It has a post office with the ZIP code 19951.
Harbeson is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Harbeson was named for Harbeson Hickman, a large landowner.4
External links
- Media related to Harbeson, Delaware at Wikimedia Commons
References
Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 24. /wiki/Chicago ↩
"Harbeson, Delaware". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved March 3, 2008. https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/214054 ↩
"Zip Code Lookup". Archived from the original on May 17, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20110517022704/http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?cnty=cnty&zip=19951 ↩
Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 149. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ ↩