Welcome to the Town of Henlopen Acres, Delaware!

The Town of Henlopen Acres, Delaware, is located in eastern Sussex County.

It is one of the smallest incorporated towns of Delaware bordered by the City of Rehoboth Beach, the Rehoboth and Lewes Canal and the Atlantic Ocean. The town is currently comprised of 219 parcels covering 123 acres or 0.27 square miles.

Col. Wilbur S. Corkran, who developed Henlopen Acres in the 1930s, stated in his sales brochure that he had “planned an ideal residential development, where quiet-loving cultured people may live, during both summer and winter, in a country-seaside community amid conditions which make for health, comfort, and refined pleasure.”