Delaware Route 34

Delaware Route 34
Route information
Maintained by DelDOT
Length:	3.30 mi[1] (5.31 km)
Major junctions
West end:	Duncan Road north of Prices Corner
	DE 41 north of Prices Corner DE 141 north of Prices Corner
East end:	DE 100 near Elsmere
Highway system
Routes in Delaware ← DE 32 DE 36 →

Delaware Route 34 (DE 34), also known as Faulkland Road, is a state highway in New Castle County, Delaware. The route runs from an intersection with unnumbered Duncan Road, just west of Delaware Route 41, north of Prices Corner to Delaware Route 100 near Elsmere. The road was paved in the 1930s and designated DE 34 in the 1970s.

Route description

Delaware Route 34 heads east from Duncan Road and intersects Delaware Route 41. It then heads east, crosses the Red Clay Creek, and heads through suburban development. It then intersects Delaware Route 141 and heads east, passing to the south of a DuPont facility. It continues east to an intersection with Delaware Route 100 on the northern border of Elsmere, just west of the western city limit of Wilmington.^[1][2]

History

What is now DE 34 originally existed as a county road by 1920.^[3] By 1936, the road was paved.^[4] DE 34 was designated onto its current alignment by 1976.^[5]

Major intersections

The entire route is in New Castle County.

Location	Mile[1]	Road	Notes
Prices Corner	0.00	Duncan Road	Western terminus
	0.23	DE 41 (Newport Gap Pike)
		DE 141 (Centre Road)
Elsmere	3.30	DE 100 (Dupont Road)	Eastern 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 34 (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=DE+34+and+duncan+road&daddr=DE+34+and+DE+100&hl=en&geocode=FRl0XgIdfLB9-ylRHcrjI_7GiTHfJ5f-fuyplA%3BFc-FXgId7pd--ykfmTHxlv3GiTE4Q8390hwXcg&mra=ls&sll=39.80558,-75.521735&sspn=0.060134,0.169086&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14. Retrieved February 6, 2011. 
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 April 15, 2010. 
4. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1936/37 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_008.pdf. Retrieved April 15, 2010. 
5. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1976 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_054.pdf. Retrieved February 6, 2011.