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Pickering_Beach,_Delaware Latitude and Longitude:
39°08′13″N 75°24′35″W / 39.13694°N 75.40972°W / 39.13694; -75.40972
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Pickering Beach, Delaware
Unincorporated community
Pickering Beach is located in Delaware
Pickering Beach
Pickering Beach
Pickering Beach is located in the United States
Pickering Beach
Pickering Beach
Coordinates: 39°08′13″N 75°24′35″W / 39.13694°N 75.40972°W / 39.13694; -75.40972
CountryUnited States
State Delaware
County Kent
Elevation
7 ft (2 m)
Time zone UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST))
 • Summer ( DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code 302
GNIS feature ID214448 [1]

Pickering Beach is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Delaware, United States. Pickering Beach is located along the Delaware Bay at the end of Pickering Beach Road, southeast of Dover. [2] The beach itself is an established horseshoe crab sanctuary, [3] with the crabs spawning there in early summer.

A large number of horseshoe crabs gather on the shore line in Pickering Beach, Delaware.

References

  1. ^ "Pickering Beach". 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. ^ "Delaware Ecotourism at ecoDelaware.com : Pickering Beach, an official horseshoe crab sanctuary". www.ecodelaware.com. Retrieved October 5, 2022.


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