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Blades Delaware Map

Explore Blades, Delaware, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Blades, Delaware

How to Use This Blades, Delaware Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Blades, Delaware. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Delaware or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Blades.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Blades
State	Delaware (DE)
County	Sussex County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.63567
Longitude	-75.609927
Population	1,179
Density	818.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	19973
Area Code	302
County Seat	Georgetown
School District	Seaford School District

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About Blades, Delaware

Blades is a locality in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,179. The population density is 818.7 people per km². Blades is located at 38.6357°N, 75.6099°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Blades is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 19973.

Blades occupies a low, level stretch of land where the persistent, tea-colored Nanticoke River carves a slow path through the southern landscape. It lies 21.5 miles south-southwest of Milford, DE (from Milford, DE: bearing 207°T), and is situated 0.4 miles south of Seaford. The horizon remains wide and unobstructed, save for the distant, hazy suggestion of Pine Ridge that marks the far edge of the traveler’s view. Williams Pond offers a quiet, glassy mirror to the sky, its edges softened by the reeds and silt that characterize this humid basin. Morgan Island sits within the river’s bend, a silent sentinel of earth and tangled root, while the air carries the faint, briny suggestion of the distant coast, reminding one that the tides of the Bulkhead Shoal Channel exert a distant but undeniable pull on these inland waters. At dusk, the light turns the surface of the river into a sheet of hammered copper, catching the movement of the marsh grass in a way that makes the entire landscape feel suspended in a profound, heavy stillness.

Blades maintains a tether to the water through the modest infrastructure of Blades Marina, where the rhythm of the day is dictated less by the clock and more by the passage of vessels navigating the river. The local economy has long been shaped by the industry of the soil and the river, reflecting a history of labor that persists in the quiet movement of heavy machinery and the steady hum of commerce. Beyond the reach of the town, the Redden State Forest Bailey Tract provides a dark, verdant counterpoint to the open fields of the region, where the scent of pine needles and damp earth lingers after a rain. Life here moves with a deliberate, unadorned focus, marked by the practical tasks of maintaining the harbor and the land. While the modern world presses in from all sides, Blades remains defined by its proximity to the water, a place where the watermen and the land-dwellers share the same horizon, watching the slow, inexorable flow of the Nanticoke River toward the sea.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Blades Marina (Local Recreation) — 0.1 mi, 277° W
Triangle Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 184° S
Town Of Blades Public Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 147° SE
Blades Elementary School (Recreation Easement) — 0.3 mi, 151° SE
Williams Pond (Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 027° NE
Douglass Elementary School (Recreation Easement) — 0.6 mi, 021° N
Seaford High School (Local Recreation) — 1.0 mi, 354° N
Western Sussex Boys and Girls Club (Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 352° N
Other Division Lands - Foskey Tract (State Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 272° W
Barnes Woods Nature Preserve (State Park) — 2.1 mi, 240° SW
Nanticoke Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 220° SW
Military Exhib Site (Registered Battlefield) — 5.5 mi, 158° S
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 7.3 mi, 224° SW · 96k acres
Bridgeville Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 7.4 mi, 004° N
Civil War Monument (Monument) — 12.7 mi, 079° E
Naylor Mill Forest Trail (Attraction) — 15.4 mi, 176° S
Chesapeake Fire Museum (Museum) — 15.7 mi, 193° S
East New Market Heritage Museum (Museum) — 17.3 mi, 262° W
William Still Center Families Divided & United Marker (Monument) — 18.2 mi, 318° NW
Bethel Church (Monument) — 18.7 mi, 133° SE
Theatre and Web Development House (Theatre) — 19.9 mi, 180° S
Caroline County Shooting Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 20.0 mi, 315° NW
Salisbury University Richard A. Henson School of Science & Technology Planetarium (Museum) — 20.1 mi, 179° S
Sammy the Seagull (Public Artwork) — 20.1 mi, 179° S
Mispillion Art League (Gallery) — 21.6 mi, 027° NE
Milford Movies 9 (Cinema) — 22.6 mi, 025° NE
Neild Museum (Museum) — 24.8 mi, 259° W
Painting with a Twist (Gallery) — 25.2 mi, 072° E
Dorchester Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 25.5 mi, 260° W
Cinema Art Theater (Arts Centre) — 25.7 mi, 073° E

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