page_title: Sussex County, Delaware
section_title: Communities
hierarchical_section_title: Sussex County, Delaware / Communities
caption_attribution_description: English: Lighthouse in the National Harbor of Refuge
context_page_description: Sussex County is located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. As of the 2010 census, the population was 197,145. The county seat is Georgetown.
  The first European settlement in the state of Delaware was founded by the Dutch in 1631 near the present-day town of Lewes on the Atlantic Coast. However, Sussex County was not organized until 1683 under English colonial rule.
  Sussex County is included in the Salisbury, MD-DE Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses much of central Delmarva.
caption: Lighthouse off the coast of Lewes
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