Editing Millville, Delaware

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'''Millville''' is a town in [[Sussex County, Delaware|Sussex County]], [[Delaware]], [[United States]]. The population in 2020 was 1,825,<ref>{{Cite web  |title=Search Results |url=https://www.census.gov/search-results.html |access-date=June 27, 2022 |website=The United States Census Bureau |language=EN-US}}</ref> It is part of the [[Salisbury metropolitan area|Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area]] and lies within [[Baltimore Hundred]].

==Geography==
Millville is located at {{coord|38|32|58|N|75|07|24|W|type:city}} (38.5495569, –75.1232391),<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> approximately {{convert|1|mi|km|0}} west of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and about {{convert|1|mi|km|0}} south of [[Indian River Bay]]. It is contiguous on the east with [[Ocean View, Delaware|Ocean View]], and bordered on the north, west and south by unincorporated portions of Sussex County.<ref>''ADC Map Book Sussex County, Delaware, 1st Edition'', pp. 34-35.</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|0.5|sqmi|km2}}, in which all of it was land.

==Transportation==
[[File:2022-07-08 13 18 05 View west along Delaware State Route 26 (Atlantic Avenue) just west of Old Mill Road in Millville, Sussex County, Delaware.jpg|thumb|left|DE 26 westbound in Millville]]
Roads are the main means of transportation to and from Millville. [[Delaware Route 26]] is the primary state highway serving the town, passing through on an east–west alignment. It heads eastward toward [[Bethany Beach, Delaware|Bethany Beach]] and west to [[U.S. Route 113 in Delaware|U.S. Route 113]] in [[Dagsboro, Delaware|Dagsboro]]. [[Delaware Route 17]] is the other primary highway serving Millville, heading southwestward from its junction with DE 26 just northwest of town, skimming the southwestern edge of town, then traversing rural areas until it reaches [[Selbyville, Delaware|Selbyville]].

==Government==

===Elected officials===
Millville has a [[council-manager]] form of government. Under the current governmental structure and electoral system, which went into effect with the election of March 3, 2001, a five-person [[town council]] governs the town. After each election, the council elects one of its members to serve as [[mayor]]. Another council member serves as deputy mayor, another as [[treasurer]], and another as [[secretary]], while the fifth council member serves as a council member alone with no additional duties. Each council member serves a two-year term, and the terms are staggered so that three of the council members are elected in each odd-numbered year and two in each even-numbered year.<ref name="millville.delaware.gov">[http://millville.delaware.gov/ Town of Millville, Delaware, official Web site]</ref>

The Annual Municipal Election is held on the first Saturday in March. Anyone 18 years old or older registered to vote in Millville may run for the town council as long as the candidate has lived in Millville for at least 90 days before the date of that year{{'}}s election.<ref name="millville.delaware.gov"/>

If only one person runs for a particular council seat, that person takes office automatically without any election being held that year for that seat. If no one runs for a particular council seat, the [[incumbent]] automatically serves another term without any election being held that year for that seat.<ref name="millville.delaware.gov"/>

===Appointed officials and town operations===
A [[town manager]] oversees the day-to-day operations of the town. The [[Delaware State Police]] provides police service to Millville under a contract with the Town and the Millville Volunteer Fire Company serves Millville, Ocean View, and unincorporated portions of Sussex County as far east as the [[Assawoman Canal]] and as almost as far west as [[Dagsboro, Delaware|Dagsboro]];<ref>[http://millville.delaware.gov/ Town of Millville, Delaware, official web site] and Meehan, p. 138</ref> it purchased its first motor-driven firefighting vehicle in 1936<ref name="Town of Millville: History">[http://millville.delaware.gov/history/ Town of Millville: History]</ref> and today operates 16 vehicles.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.millville84.com/apparatus.cfm |title=Millville Volunteer Fire Company |access-date=August 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621160544/http://millville84.com/apparatus.cfm |archive-date=June 21, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Sussex County handled all [[land use]] [[regulation]] in Millville until 1993, when Millville itself began to pass [[zoning]] [[Local ordinance|ordinances]] to control growth.<ref>Meehan, p. 134.</ref>

==History==
The early settlement of the Millville area by [[Europe]]ans is poorly recorded, although it is known that the [[swamp]]y, [[marsh]]y nature of much of the land of eastern [[Baltimore Hundred]] in southeastern Delaware when the first Europeans arrived led them to establish [[plantations in the American South|plantation]]s on higher ground in the vicinity of what are now Millville, Ocean View, and [[Clarksville, Delaware|Clarksville]]. Millville itself grew up around a [[steam]]-powered [[sawmill]] operated by [[Captain (land)|Captain]] Peter Townshend in the late 19th century, becoming a center for [[lumber]], [[Agriculture|agricultural products]], and [[commercial fishing]].<ref name="Town of Millville: History"/>

For a time, the names "Dukestown" and "Dukesville" were considered for the town because of the prominence and number of members of the Dukes family who lived in the area. Eventually, the town was named Millville because of the [[sorghum]] mills, [[lumber mill]]s and [[grist mill]]s in the area.

Millville was incorporated in 1906. It had a population of 206 at the time,<ref>Meehan, p. 138</ref> and has grown in population only very slowly since,<ref name="Town of Millville: History"/> reaching only 259 by the 2000 [[census]]. However, the population more than doubled by the 2010 census, rising to 544 residents,{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} the highest in the recorded history of Millville.

Millville was considered the principal town of Baltimore Hundred, although this today lacks meaning because [[List of Delaware Hundreds|Delaware's hundreds]] lost their political functions long ago and now serve only as geographic points of reference.
{{US Census population
|1910= 193
|1920= 112
|1930= 193
|1940= 184
|1950= 270
|1960= 231
|1970= 224
|1980= 178
|1990= 206
|2000= 259
|2010= 544
|2020= 1825
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref>
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==Notes==
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==References==
*[http://millville.delaware.gov/ Town of Millville, Delaware, official web site]
*''ADC Map Book Sussex County, Delaware, 1st Edition''. Alexandria Drafting Company: Alexandria, Virginia, 2005.
*Meehan, James D. ''Bethany Beach Memoirs...A Long Look Back''. Harold E. Dukes Jr.: Bethany Beach, Delaware, 1998. {{oclc|41159140}}.

==External links==
{{Commons category|Millville, Delaware}}
* http://millville.delaware.gov/

{{Sussex County, Delaware}}

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[[Category:Towns in Sussex County, Delaware]]
[[Category:Towns in Delaware]]
[[Category:Salisbury metropolitan area]]