Delaware Route 42

Delaware State Route 42 or shortly DE 6 is a 20.42 km long state highway in Kent County, Delaware. It begins at the Delaware State Route 6 in Blackiston and ends at the Delaware State Route 9 in Leipsic. Delaware State Route 42 runs through the towns of Kenton and Cheswold.

Route description

The State Route 42 runs from State Route 6 in a northwesterly direction on the Blackiston Road to the intersection with unnumbered Longridge Road. This leads to the State Border with Maryland and is there for the Maryland State Route 330, which runs through the Kent County Maryland and the Maryland State Route 313 to connect with U.S. Highway 301 manufactures. DE 42 itself continues on to Kenton and crosses there as Commerce Street, the Delaware State Route 300, the local Main Street.

Kenton leaving behind, the road as Seven hickories Road eastward through a little built-up landscape to Seven hickories, where it joins with the Delaware State Route 15. Both roads have a common history up to the vicinity of Moores Corner. From there, from DE 15 heads south on the Kenton Road and No. 42 to the east in the direction of Cheswold. It passes through this town as Main Street and intersects U.S. Highway 13 at its eastern edge.

The state route continues on the Fast Landing Road. It crosses the toll Delaware State Route 1, to which there is a ramp for emergency vehicles, but no official access is. You through agricultural area to the northeast before it makes a sharp bend to the south-east and passes through the floodplain of the Leipsic River and reached the city of Leipsic. There she forms the Second Street, on which it runs to the end point at the Delaware State Route 9 to the east.