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Thompsonville, Delaware
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 38°59′58″N 75°23′23″W / 38.99944°N 75.38972°W / 38.99944; -75.38972
Country	United States
State	Delaware
County	Kent
Elevation	10 ft (3 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code	302
GNIS feature ID	216234

Thompsonville is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Delaware, United States. Thompsonville is located at the intersection of Milford Neck Road and Bennetts Pier Road, northeast of Milford.

History

The Thompsonville Methodist Church was established in 1790. A post office was established in Thompsonville in July, 1891 and operated in the Thompson Store until the last mail day of March, 1902, when rural free delivery was started for the area. The South Bowers Volunteer Fire Company established a fire station in Thompsonville in 1970, and eventually closed the fire station in South Bowers and moved all operations to the station in Thompsonville.

References

1. "Thompsonville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Delaware Department of Transportation (2008). Delaware Official Transportation Map (PDF) (Map). Dover: Delaware Department of Transportation.
3. "Thompsonville Methodists Mark Church's 151st Year". The News Journal(Wilmington, Delaware). October 28, 1941.
4. "Peninsula Points". The Morning News(Wilmington, Delaware). July 20, 1891.
5. "Thompson, 87, Retiring, Closing His Country Store". The News Journal(Wilmington, Delaware). July 5, 1962.
6. "History - South Bowers Volunteer Fire Company".

v t e Municipalities and communities of Kent County, Delaware, United States
County seat: Dover
Cities	Dover Harrington Milford‡
Towns	Bowers Camden Cheswold Clayton‡ Farmington Felton Frederica Hartly Houston Kenton Leipsic Little Creek Magnolia Smyrna‡ Viola Woodside Wyoming
CDPs	Dover Base Housing Highland Acres Kent Acres Rising Sun-Lebanon Riverview Rodney Village Woodside East
Unincorporated communities	Adamsville‡ Andrewville Berrytown Big Stone Beach Bishops Corner Blackiston Brownsville Canterbury Carpenters Bridge Chapeltown Cowgills Corner Dinahs Corner Downs Chapel Dutch Neck Crossroads Hazlettville Hickman Hollandsville Kitts Hummock Little Heaven Little Hell Marydel Mastens Corner Moores Corner Pearsons Corner Petersburg Pickering Beach Port Mahon Sandtown Seven Hickories Smyrna Landing‡ South Bowers Star Hill Thompsonville Vernon Whiteleysburg Williamsville Willow Grove Woodland Beach Wrights Crossroads
Hundreds	Duck Creek East Dover Kenton Little Creek Milford Mispillion North Murderkill South Murderkill West Dover
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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