Delaware Route 23

Delaware Route 23
Route information
Maintained by DelDOT
Length:	14.86 mi[1] (23.91 km)
Major junctions
South end:	road end in Long Neck
	DE 5 / DE 24 in Long Neck DE 1D in Five Points US 9 / DE 404 in Five Points
North end:	DE 1 in Five Points
Highway system
Routes in Delaware ← DE 20 DE 24 →

Delaware Route 23 is a state highway in Sussex County, Delaware. Its southern terminus is at Massey's Landing in Long Neck, near the confluence of Rehoboth Bay and Indian River Bay and its northern terminus is at the Five Points intersection, where it ends at Delaware Route 1, U.S. Route 9 and Delaware Route 404. The road originally existed as a unnumbered road except along the Delaware Route 5 concurrency, becoming fully paved by 1970. The DE 23 designation was assigned by 1994.

Route description

Delaware Route 23 heads west from Massey's Landing on Long Neck Road. It passes through the housing developments that constitute the unincorporated community of Long Neck to Delaware Route 24. At this intersection, the name changes to Indian Mission Road, and DE 23 begins a concurrency with Delaware Route 5, which makes a left turn from DE 24 onto DE 23 northbound. The concurrency continues north to Fairmount, where DE 5 heads to the northwest and DE 23 continues north on Beaver Dam Road, passing through the community of Hollymount. Here, it intersects Delaware Route 24 Alternate and forms a concurrency with that route. It follows Beaver Dam Road north and then northeast through mixed farmland and housing developments toward the Five Points intersection. Just before its terminus, DE 23 meets Delaware Route 1D (Plantation Road), where DE 24 Alternate splits from DE 23 by heading south on DE 1D and DE 1D heads north along with DE 23 on the very short Belltown Road to an intersection with U.S. Route 9 and Delaware Route 404 just west of their intersection with Delaware Route 1. At this point, DE 23 forms a brief concurrency with US 9 and DE 404 to the DE 1 intersection.^[1][2]

History

By 1920, what is now DE 23 existed as an unimproved county road.^[3] The portion of the present route that is concurrent with DE 5 was upgraded to a state highway by 1931 and became a part of DE 5 by 1938.^[4][5] By 1970, the road was paved.^[6] When DelDOT assigned maintenance numbers to its roads by 1988, present-day DE 23 became Road 22 south of the north end of the DE 5 concurrency and Road 285 north of that point.^[7] DE 23 was assigned onto its current alignment by 1994.^[8] DE 24 Alternate was designated to run along DE 23 between Hollymount Road and Plantation Road by 2006.^[9]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Sussex County.

Location	Mile[1]	Road	Notes
Long Neck	0.00	Dead end	Southern terminus
	5.47	DE 5 south / DE 24 (John J. Williams Highway)	South end of DE 5 overlap
		DE 5 north (Indian Mission Road)	North end of DE 5 overlap
Hollymount	8.85	DE 24 Alt. west (Hollyville Road)	South end of DE 24 Alt. overlap
Five Points		DE 1D south / DE 24 Alt. east (Plantation Road)	North end of DE 24 Alt. overlap, south end of DE 1D overlap
	14.62	US 9 / DE 404 west (Lewes Georgetown Highway)	West end of US 9/DE 404 overlap
	14.86	US 9 east / DE 1 south (Coastal Highway) / US 9 Bus. east (Savannah Road)	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

• U.S. Roads portal
• Delaware portal

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.deldot.gov/information/pubs_forms/manuals/traffic_counts/2006/pdf/rpt_pgs1_38_rev.pdf DelDOT 2006 Traffic Count and Mileage Report
2. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – overview of Delaware Route 23 (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Masseys+Landing,+Millsboro,+DE&daddr=Rd+285%2FBeaver+Dam+Rd+to:delaware+1+and+savannah+road&geocode=FeBeTQIdEgmG-ymvoWGnJsm4iTF8_WrPwBbZFQ%3BFcx-TgIdGk2E-w%3BFTxDTwIdnN-E-ykrrrkDtrm4iTFdYEqCehy3jg&hl=en&mra=ls&via=1&sll=38.67499,-75.209141&sspn=0.028814,0.084543&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=11. Retrieved 2010-08-24. 
3. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1920 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_002.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-15. 
4. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1931 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_005.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-19. 
5. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1938 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_010.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-29. 
6. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1970 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_048.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-24. 
7. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1988 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_066.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-15. 
8. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1994 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_068.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-29. 
9. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (2006 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_081.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-19.