The story
Read it all →How Long Neck came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Long Neck.
This is taken from deed record, page 247, Georgetown Court House, Delaware titled as;
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Long Neck
Half of Long Neck’s homes were built after 2001
More historic than 4% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Most of Long Neck was built recently: 0.6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2001. Below: maps from 1918 on and the census since 1990.
0on the National Register
0.6%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
About Long Neck’s history
How historic is Long Neck?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 4% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
History grade
What drives Long Neck’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Long Neck is more historic than 4% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Long Neck’s overall grade.
Founding eraNo founding year we can rely on, so the grade uses the other two–Homes built before 19400.6% of homes (±1.0) · typical DE town 5.9% · U.S. 8.4%DNational RegisterNo listings counted · typical DE town 29.4 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 4%
NewerOlder
Delaware towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Delaware town has 29.4 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Long Neck’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (14% of Delaware towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share (±1.0 points) is firm at this size.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Long Neck’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Long Neck are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Long Neck, and 6 old place names are still on the map.On the map since 19186 editions of the USGS map, 1918 to 1984. Watch Long Neck change.
★ What stands out · Help out
Start Long Neck’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Long Neck’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone
Another post office, Trinity, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Enchanted Acres Mobile Home ParkLingo Estate Mobile Home ParkOak Forest Mobile Home ParkPot Nets WestSea Farers VillageTrinity
Gone or out of use
White House Farm Airportairport
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
On the map
Long Neck on the map, 1918 to 1984
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Long Neck. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1918Rehoboth sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Long Neck.
Timeline
Long Neck, 1889 to 1918
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1889Post officeThe Trinity post office opens
- 20th century
- 1914Post officeThe Trinity post office closes
- 1918
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumPeople over time
Long Neck, census by census
Grew from 886 people in 1990 to 3,017 in 2020, 3 times over.
4 censuses, 1990–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Long Neck’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Long Neck
Nobody well known was born in Long Neck itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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Warren K. LewisAmerican chemical engineer · b. 1882
Questions about Long Neck’s history
How does Long Neck rank for history?
Long Neck is more historic than 4% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Long Neck?
0.6% of Long Neck’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.0 points), against a typical 5.9% for a Delaware town; the median home was built in 2001.
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.