Omar, Delaware

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Delaware, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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|image_caption = Intersection of Delaware Route 20 and Omar Road in Omar

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|map_caption = Location within Sussex county

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|timezone = Eastern (EST)

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|blank1_info = 216170{{cite gnis|216170|Omar}}

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Omar is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States, located at the crossroads of Delaware Route 20 (Armory Road/Pyle Center Road) and Sussex County Road 54 (Omar Road) and between the towns of Dagsboro and Roxana.

Omar was a post village.{{Citation |last = Gannett |first = Henry |title = A Gazetteer of Delaware (Issue 230 of Geological Survey bulletin) |publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office |year = 1904 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xif5aF6LszUC&dq=Queen+Anne%27s+Railroad+overbrook&pg=PA13}}

The Baltimore Mills Historic Archaeological Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

References

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{{Sussex County, Delaware}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Sussex County, Delaware

Category:Unincorporated communities in Delaware

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