Explore Riverview, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Riverview, 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 Riverview.
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 | Riverview |
| State | Delaware (DE) |
| County | Kent County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.030435 |
| Longitude | -75.518649 |
| Population | 2,458 |
| Density | 262.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 19966, 19946 |
| Area Code | 302 |
| County Seat | Dover |
| School District | Lake Forest School District |
Riverview emerges from the flat, agrarian expanse of the mid-Atlantic interior as a quiet intersection of open fields and the persistent, low-slung course of the Pratt Branch. It lies 9.0 miles north-northwest of Milford, DE (from Milford, DE: bearing 331°T), and is situated 9.1 miles south of Dover. The landscape surrounding Riverview remains defined by the deliberate, steady movement of the water, which carves a modest path through the silt and heavy clay of the plains, providing a singular, silver ribbon of motion against the stillness of the surrounding acreage. As the afternoon light stretches, the shadows of the tall grasses along the banks lengthen, casting a bronze hue over the earth that reveals the subtle, intentional geometry of the fields. Within the boundaries of Riverview Estates, the air carries a crisp, terrestrial weight, devoid of any saline character, grounding the observer in the vast, landlocked reality of the local topography.
Agriculture remains the silent pulse of the region, where the labor of the soil informs the rhythm of every passing season and the modest, utilitarian architecture of the local infrastructure. The legacy of the land is measured in the cycles of the harvest and the persistent, quiet industry that has defined the character of Riverview since its earliest settlements. Beyond the immediate reach of the cultivated plots, the horizon remains unobstructed, save for the distant, faint silhouette of Sugar Hill, which offers a constant, stationary reference point against the shifting sky. Life here moves with a deliberate, unadorned pace, reflecting a history rooted in the productivity of the plains rather than the frenetic energy of larger, more clustered centers of commerce.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Riverview, Delaware. Coordinates: 39.030435, -75.518649. 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 Riverview includes the ZIP code (19966, 19946), telephone area code (302), county seat of Kent County (Dover), and school district assignment (Lake Forest 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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |