Odessa Delaware Map

About Odessa, Delaware

Odessa is a locality in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It is a small community with a population of 366. The population density is 278.7 people per km². Odessa is located at 39.4573°N, 75.6613°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Odessa is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 19730.

Odessa rises from the flat, fertile earth where the Appoquinimink River carves a serpentine path through the quiet inland plains. It lies 3.0 miles east of Middletown, DE (from Middletown, DE: bearing 80°T), and is situated 4.6 miles north-northeast of Townsend. The horizon remains largely unbroken by the distant silhouette of Cabin Ridge, leaving the sky to dominate the view with a vast, shifting quality of light that turns the fields into pools of amber and bronze during the harvest. Near the center of the landscape, the land dips toward the low-lying terrain of Pools Bottom, while the dense, shaded canopy of the Blackbird State Forest Tybout Tract offers a cool contrast to the sun-drenched agricultural rows. Within the immediate vicinity, Shallcross Lake rests in a stillness that mirrors the slow, deliberate pace of the passing seasons.

History lingers in the architecture of Odessa, where brick facades and heavy timber frames endure as quiet witnesses to an era when the Appoquinimink River served as a vital artery for the movement of grain and goods. The local economy, once deeply rooted in the cycles of the soil, maintains a tether to its agrarian origins even as the modern world brushes against its edges. Residents often gather in the open quiet of Odessa Memorial Park, a space that defines the town’s communal pulse as much as the preservation of its mid-Atlantic heritage. Life here moves with the gravity of the land itself, favoring the endurance of tradition and the steady, unadorned rhythm of a day measured by the lengthening shadows of colonial-era eaves.

About This Odessa Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Odessa, Delaware. Coordinates: 39.457334, -75.661318. 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 Odessa includes the ZIP code (19730), telephone area code (302), county seat of New Castle County (Wilmington), and school district assignment (Appoquinimink 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.