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Houston Delaware Map

Explore Houston, 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 Houston, Delaware

How to Use This Houston, Delaware Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Houston, 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 Houston.

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.

CityHouston
StateDelaware (DE)
CountyKent County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude38.917349
Longitude-75.503892
Population381
Density384.1 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Codes19968, 19954
Area Code302
County SeatDover
School DistrictMilford School District

About Houston, Delaware

Houston is a locality in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is a small community with a population of 381. The population density is 384.1 people per km². Houston is located at 38.9173°N, 75.5039°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Houston is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 19968, 19954.

Houston occupies a quiet expanse of flat, alluvial farmland where the horizon stretches wide under a sky that seems to hold more light than the earth below. It lies 4.2 miles west of Milford, DE (from Milford, DE: bearing 275°T), and is situated 3.9 miles east of Harrington. The damp, heavy air carries the salt-scent of a distant coast, though the land itself remains defined by the slow, deliberate pulse of the nearby Beaverdam Branch. Residents find a familiar stillness in the presence of Blairs Pond, where the water mirrors the shifting gray of the clouds, while the verdant boundaries of Armour Park offer a patch of managed wildness amidst the fields. Far to the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Cabin Ridge marks the limit of the view, a reminder of the elevation that Houston lacks in this low, reclaimed plain.

History here is written in the soil and the rhythm of the broiler-chicken industry, which anchors the local economy with the steady hum of agricultural machinery and the turning of the seasons. While the bustle of the distant Mispillion Marina suggests the pull of the tides, life in Houston maintains a grounded, inland composure, far removed from the seasonal flux of the shore. Travelers occasionally pass through on their way to the deeper timber of Ellendale State Forest, leaving the local streets to the quiet persistence of those who call this place home. Even the nearby Ice Cream Island remains an obscure landmark in a landscape where the primary labor is the tending of crops and the maintenance of a simple, enduring way of life.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Armour Park (Local Park) — 0.0 mi, 146° SE
  • Southfield (Conservation Area) — 0.3 mi, 020° N
  • Breeders Crown Farms (Conservation Area) — 0.7 mi, 354° N
  • Mists at Blairs Pond (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 146° SE
  • Griffith Lake (State Resource Management Area) — 1.5 mi, 127° SE
  • Abbotts Mill Nature Center (State Conservation Area) — 2.3 mi, 146° SE
  • Silver Lake (State Resource Management Area) — 3.3 mi, 095° E
  • Milford Movies 9 (Cinema) — 3.9 mi, 074° E
  • Mispillion Art League (Gallery) — 4.1 mi, 094° E
  • Killens Pond State Park (State Park) — 4.2 mi, 343° N
  • Murderkill River Nature Preserve (State Park) — 4.8 mi, 010° N
  • Ted Harvey Conservation Area (Wildlife Area) (Marine Protected Area) — 10.2 mi, 024° NE
  • Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 10.3 mi, 013° N
  • Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 10.3 mi, 096° E · 29k acres
  • Bowers Beach Maritime Museum (Museum) — 11.2 mi, 029° NE
  • Bridgeville Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 13.1 mi, 204° SW
  • U-3A "Blue Canoe" (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 010° N
  • UH-1H Iroquois (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 010° N
  • C-60 Lodestar (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 011° N
  • C-45G Expeditor (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 010° N
  • Air Mobility Command Museum (Museum) — 14.2 mi, 010° N
  • John Milton Statue (Monument) — 14.2 mi, 133° SE
  • Super Cichlids Inc (Aquarium) — 16.4 mi, 001° N
  • Johnson Victrola Museum (Museum) — 16.5 mi, 356° N
  • Fireman's Memorial (Monument) — 16.6 mi, 357° N
  • Liberty Bell Replica (Monument) — 16.6 mi, 357° N
  • Biggs Museum of American Art (Museum) — 16.6 mi, 356° N
  • Jackson Lane Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 16.7 mi, 304° NW
  • Dover High School Stadium (Stadium) — 18.1 mi, 354° N
  • Caroline County Shooting Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 20.6 mi, 255° W

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About This Houston Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Houston, Delaware. Coordinates: 38.917349, -75.503892. 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 Houston includes the ZIP code (19968, 19954), telephone area code (302), county seat of Kent County (Dover), and school district assignment (Milford School District).

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.

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.

Page generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.