Greenwood Delaware Map

About Greenwood, Delaware

Greenwood is a locality in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It is a small community with a population of 990. The population density is 481.4 people per km². Greenwood is located at 38.8071°N, 75.5913°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Greenwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 19950.

Greenwood defines the horizon with a flat, persistent modesty, where the Cart Branch carves a slow, deliberate path through the silty earth. It lies 11.4 miles southwest of Milford, DE (from Milford, DE: bearing 230°T), and is situated 8.1 miles south of Harrington. The air here holds the heavy, humid promise of the nearby Atlantic, carrying a salt-brine tang that drifts inland across the fields to soften the edges of the afternoon light. Beyond the immediate periphery, the dense, verdant canopy of Ellendale State Forest offers a dark contrast to the sun-bleached expanse of the surrounding farmland. Even at the height of summer, the sky seems to press down with a vast, pale clarity, illuminating the quiet geometry of the land as it stretches toward the distant, unseen tides of Rye Hole.

Greenwood functions as a steady pulse in a region defined by the quiet labor of broiler-chicken production and the ancient, rhythmic cycle of the harvest. Life here centers on the simple, unadorned utility of Library Park, where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the occasional passage of a tractor or the shift of wind through the pines. History in this corner of the state is not etched in marble, but in the enduring pattern of fields that have been tilled for generations, occasionally interrupted by the low, marshy basin of Bull Island or the solitary, wooded presence of Gum Island. The pace of daily existence remains tethered to the soil, a quiet persistence that ignores the frantic acceleration of the world beyond the horizon of Pine Ridge.

About This Greenwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Greenwood, Delaware. Coordinates: 38.807058, -75.591315. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Greenwood includes the ZIP code (19950), telephone area code (302), county seat of Sussex County (Georgetown), and school district assignment (Woodbridge School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.