State highway in New Castle County, Delaware, United States
Delaware Route 71
Route information
Maintained by DelDOT and USACE
Length
21.99 mi[1] (35.39 km)
Existed
1938[2]–present
Tourist routes
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway
Major junctions
South end
US 13 near Townsend
Major intersections
DE 299 in Middletown
US 301 Toll near Middletown
DE 896 in Mount Pleasant
DE 15 in Summit Bridge
DE 896 near Summit Bridge
DE 72 in Williamsburg
DE 7 in Red Lion
North end
US 13 / DE 1 in Tybouts Corner
Location
Country
United States
State
Delaware
Counties
New Castle
Highway system
Delaware State Route System
List
Byways
← DE 62
→ DE 72
Delaware Route 71 (DE 71) is a state highway in New Castle County, Delaware. The route runs from U.S. Route 13 (US 13) south of Townsend north to another intersection with US 13 in Tybouts Corner, traveling to the west of US 13 by way of Townsend, Middletown, and the Summit Bridge. The route runs concurrent with DE 896 from Mount Pleasant to just north of the Summit Bridge.
DE 71 was built as a state highway during the 1920s and 1930s. By 1938, the route was designated to run from US 13 south of Townsend north to US 13 in Tybouts Corner roughly along its present-day alignment. In the 1950s, DE 71 was rerouted to head to the Maryland border southwest of Middletown to connect to Maryland Route 71 (MD 71), with the former route south of Middletown becoming an extended DE 896. Between the 1950s and 1980s, DE 71 was signed with various alignments of US 301 and US 301S. In the 1980s, DE 71 was truncated to DE 896 in Summit Bridge before being extended back along its 1930s alignment to US 13 by the 1990s. The US 301 concurrency between Middletown and Summit Bridge was removed in 2019.
^Staff (2018). "Traffic Count and Mileage Report: Interstate, Delaware, and US Routes" (PDF). Delaware Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
^Cite error: The named reference DE 1938 map was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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Global Information
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway
US 13 near Townsend
US 13 / DE 1 in Tybouts Corner
