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Milton Delaware Map

Explore Milton, 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 Milton, Delaware

How to Use This Milton, Delaware Map

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

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

Latitude	38.777612
Longitude	-75.309914
Population	3,291
Density	711.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	19968
Area Code	302
County Seat	Georgetown
School District	Cape Henlopen School District

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About Milton, Delaware

Milton is a locality in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,291. The population density is 711.5 people per km². Milton is located at 38.7776°N, 75.3099°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Milton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 19968.

Milton reveals itself through the slow, dark coils of the Broadkill River, which winds through the landscape like a vein of hammered silver. It lies 11.3 miles southeast of Milford, DE (from Milford, DE: bearing 146°T), and is situated 7.3 miles northeast of Georgetown. The terrain here sits low and patient, a flat expanse of tidal earth where the air retains a heavy, salt-sweet moisture carried from Rehoboth Bay, ten miles distant. Wagamons Pond mirrors the sky in the center of the landscape, its surface often undisturbed save for the ripple of an egret’s wing. To the west, the horizon remains flat and unyielding, though the distant haze of Pine Ridge occasionally teases the eye when the atmosphere grows thin and cold. The Preserve on the Broadkill guards the water’s edge, holding the wilder edges of the marsh in a quiet, green suspension, while the nearby Redden State Forest offers a deeper, shaded respite from the coastal sun.

Milton carries the weight of a colonial past within the white clapboard of its historic architecture, reflecting a lineage of shipbuilding and maritime trade that once defined the local economy. The industry here has shifted, moving from the docks and heavy timber to the rhythms of agricultural production, where the scent of the broiler-chicken houses occasionally drifts across the fields. Life moves with the deliberate pace of the tides, a steady pulse that connects the inhabitants to the neighboring Horse Island and the expansive, flat horizons beyond. There is a particular quality to the dusk here, a bruised violet light that settles over the water and seems to press the history of the region into the very soil, grounding the daily work of the people in a landscape that has remained largely unchanged by the frantic reach of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Governors Walk Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 316° NW
Mill Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 220° SW
John Milton Statue (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 225° SW
Five Points (Conservation Area) — 0.2 mi, 115° SE
Milton Elementary School (Recreation Easement) — 0.3 mi, 217° SW
Brittingham Elementary School (Recreation Easement) — 0.3 mi, 307° NW
Unkown Park (Private Recreation) — 0.4 mi, 045° NE
Edward H. Mccabe Preserve (Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 086° E
Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 2.6 mi, 031° NE · 29k acres
Redden State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 3.1 mi, 243° SW
Hudson Park - Deltech Replacement (State Park) — 4.5 mi, 137° SE
Great Marsh Preserve (State Park) — 6.3 mi, 086° E
Cape Henlopen State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 7.5 mi, 084° E
Painting with a Twist (Gallery) — 8.0 mi, 104° E
Zwaanendael Memorial (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 086° E
Civil War Monument (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 207° SW
Cinema Art Theater (Arts Centre) — 8.7 mi, 106° E
Mispillion Art League (Gallery) — 11.3 mi, 326° NW
Fort Miles Interpretive Site (Museum) — 11.8 mi, 090° E
Hawk Watch (Viewpoint) — 11.9 mi, 086° E
Milford Movies 9 (Cinema) — 12.6 mi, 328° NW
Back Bay Art Glass LLC (Public Artwork) — 12.7 mi, 152° SE
Anna Hazzard Museum (Museum) — 12.9 mi, 109° E
Clear Space Theatre Company (Theatre) — 13.2 mi, 108° E
Bridgeville Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 261° W
Fourteen Foot Bank Light (Attraction) — 18.7 mi, 031° NE
Bowers Beach Maritime Museum (Museum) — 20.1 mi, 346° N
Military Exhib Site (Registered Battlefield) — 20.5 mi, 224° SW
Concrete Ship (Attraction) — 21.6 mi, 058° NE
Cape May Art Gallery (Gallery) — 23.4 mi, 063° NE

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