Delaware Route 12

Delaware Route 12
Route information
Maintained by DelDOT
Length:	16.19 mi[1] (26.06 km)
Major junctions
West end:	MD 314 near Whiteleysburg, MD
	US 13 in Felton DE 15 east of Felton
East end:	DE 1 near Frederica
Highway system
Routes in Delaware ← DE 11 US 13 →

Delaware Route 12 is a state highway in Kent County, Delaware. It runs from Maryland Route 314 at the Maryland border near Whiteleysburg, Maryland east to an interchange with Delaware Route 1 near Frederica. The route follows a mostly rural alignment, passing through the towns of Felton and Frederica. What would become DE 12 was built as a state highway during the 1920s. DE 12 was designated between Felton and Frederica by 1936 and extended west to Maryland by 1938. The eastern terminus was moved to its current location in 1965 when U.S. Route 113 (now DE 1) was routed to bypass Frederica. The DE 1 intersection became an interchange in 2011.

Route description

Delaware Route 12 heads east from the Maryland border on Whiteleysburg Road. Shortly after leaving the state line, it makes a left turn onto Burnite Mill Road. DE 12 then continues east through farmland to the town of Felton, which it runs through on Main Street. At the eastern edge of Felton, DE 12 intersects U.S. Route 13 and continues east on Midstate Road. It conntiues east, intersecting Delaware Route 15, and heads to the intersection with Andrews Lake Road, where the name changes to Johnnycake Landing Road. It then heads into Frederica, where it becomes Front Street. In the eastern part of town, it splits into the one-way pair of David Street eastbound and Front Street westbound. It follows these streets to Frederica Road, where it then heads north on Frederica Road to its eastern terminus at an interchange with Delaware Route 1 just north of Frederica.^[1][2]

History

By 1920, what is now DE 12 existed as an unimproved county road.^[3] By 1924, the route was completed as a state highway between Hollandsville and Frederica and was proposed as a state highway between the Maryland border in Whiteleysburg and Hollandsville and within Frederica.^[4] The entire road between Whiteleysburg and Frederica was built as a state highway by 1925.^[5] When Delaware created its state highway system by 1936, DE 12 was assigned to run from US 13 in Felton to US 113 in Frederica.^[6] By 1938, DE 12 was extended west to the Maryland border in Whiteleysburg.^[7] In 1965, US 113 was moved to a bypass to the east of Frederica, and DE 12 was extended north on the former alignment of US 113 to end at that route a short distance north of Frederica.^[8] In November 2009, construction began for a grade-separated interchange between at DE 1; the interchange was completed in June 2011.^[9][10]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Kent County.

Location	Mile[1]	Road	Notes
	0.00	MD 314 west (Whiteleysburg Road)	Maryland state line, western terminus
Felton	9.84	US 13 (Dupont Highway)
	12.24	DE 15 (Canterbury Road)
Frederica	16.19	DE 1 (Bay Road)	Interchange, eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

• U.S. Roads portal
• Delaware portal

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.deldot.gov/information/pubs_forms/manuals/traffic_counts/2006/pdf/rpt_pgs1_38_rev.pdf DelDOT 2006 Traffic Count and Mileage Report
2. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – overview of Delaware Route 12 (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=38.956832,+-75.732886&daddr=Delaware+1+and+Delaware+12&geocode=FSBvUgIdamh8-w%3BFZZYUwIdLIuA-yk5i1vrSJy4iTGg4k1UYVmdAA&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=38.956305,-75.731876&sspn=0.001794,0.005284&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=11. Retrieved 2010-08-20. 
3. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1920 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_002.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-15. 
4. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1924 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_003.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-01. 
5. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1925 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_004.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-19. 
6. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1936/37 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_008.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-15. 
7. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1938 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_010.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-03. 
8. ^ Delaware Department of Transportation (PDF). Delaware Official Highway Map (Map) (1965 ed.). http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/historic_highway_maps/pdf/cd_038.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-15. 
9. ^ "Construction to begin for Route 1, North Frederica Grade Separated Intersection". Delaware Department of Transportation. November 23, 2009. http://www.deldot.gov/public.ejs?command=PublicNewsDisplay&id=3556&month=11&year=2009. Retrieved December 29, 2009. 
10. ^ "TRAFFIC ALERT - Opening of Route 1, North Frederica Overpass". Delaware Department of Transportation. June 24, 2011. http://www.deldot.gov/public.ejs?command=PublicNewsDisplay&id=4023&month=6&year=2011. Retrieved July 8, 2011.