Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Delaware
- County
- Kent
- Type
- Council-manager
- Mayor
- William Glanden
- Total
- 1.74 sq mi (4.51 km )
- Land
- 1.74 sq mi (4.51 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 16 ft (4.9 m)
- Density
- 616.3/sq mi (237.95/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 10-28440
- Website
- Frederica, Delaware
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Frederica
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kent County
- Population
- 1073
- Area
- 4.978127
- Elevation
- 5
- Official website
- frederica.delaware.gov
- Image
- Frederica DE Town Hall.JPG
- Households
- 351
- Dialing code
- 302
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- postal code
- 19946
- Commons category
- Frederica, Delaware
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 22195
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Encyclopedic overview
Frederica is a town in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover metropolitan area. The population was 1,073 in 2020. ILC Dover, the company which manufactured the spacesuits for the Apollo and Skylab astronauts of the 1960s and 1970s, along with fabricating the suit component of the Space Shuttle's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), is located nearby.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frederica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.