Census Data for Shorts Landing

As far as we can tell, Shorts Landing<1> has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.

While we don't have census information for Shorts Landing, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:

Smyrna
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Smyrna is located in Kent County
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Clayton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Clayton is located in Kent County
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Leipsic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Leipsic is located in Kent County
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Townsend
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Townsend is located in New Castle County
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Cheswold
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Cheswold is located in Kent County
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Odessa
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Odessa is located in New Castle County
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Kenton
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Kenton is located in Kent County
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Middletown
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Middletown is located in New Castle County
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Dover
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Dover is located in Kent County
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Little Creek
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Little Creek is located in Kent County
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Delaware City
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Delaware City is located in New Castle County
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Hartly
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Hartly is located in Kent County
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- Salem
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  - Salem is located in Salem County (NJ)
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- Camden
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  - Camden is located in Kent County
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- Wyoming
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  - Wyoming is located in Kent County
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Kent County ...

Shorts Landing is located in Kent County<3>.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Kent County.

Miscellaneous Information for Shorts Landing ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Kent County or the community of Shorts Landing:

The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Shorts Landing:
- GNIS ID for Shorts Landing: 216217
- GNIS ID for Kent County: 217271
- GNIS ID for State of Delaware: 1779781

Misc. Census Codes ...
- Shorts Landing is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #5 (the South Atlantic Division).

For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Shorts Landing.

Footnotes ...

<1>	It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Shorts Landing may originally have been Short's Landing. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Shorts Landing might be written as Short Landing. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Shorts Landing.
<2>	While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>	If you're interested in how the shape of Delaware's counties, including Kent, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.