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Hockessin (/ˈhoʊkɛsɪn/) is a census-designated place (CDP) in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The population was 13,478 at the 2020 Census.

Hockessin CDP overview:
Name:	Hockessin CDP
LSAD Code:	57
LSAD Description:	CDP (suffix)
State:	Delaware
County:	New Castle County
Elevation:	259 ft (79 m)
Total Area:	10.05 sq mi (26.02 km²)
Land Area:	10.04 sq mi (26.01 km²)
Water Area:	0.01 sq mi (0.02 km²)
Total Population:	13,478
Population Density:	1,342.30/sq mi (518.26/km²)
ZIP code:	19707
Area code:	302
FIPS code:	1035850
GNISfeature ID:	214099

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History

Hockessin came into existence as a little village in 1688 when several families settled in the area. The village was named after the Lenape word hokes, meaning good bark or good bark hill. There is a second and more likely origin for the name. While the word Hockessin does look like a Native American word, the name Hockessin did not show up on any early maps until many years after the Hockessin Meeting House was built and what is now the Village of Hockessin was never settled by the Native Americans, while they did have a hunting camp nearby. There was no town name Hockessin and the area was referred to as Mill Creek Hundred. The actual name is believed to be derived from one of the first settled properties which was named Occasion and settled by William Cox in 1726 and also the location of the first Quaker meetings in the area before Hockessin Meeting House was built a few years later. The earliest known use of the word Occasion was in 1734 in a property deed for this property. And the road to the Hockessin Meeting House, currently Old Wilmington Road, was written as Ockession Road on a map in 1808. The first Roman Catholic church in Delaware was located in Hockessin. Missionary priests from Maryland established the Coffee Run Mission in 1790.

The A. Armstrong Farm, Coffee Run Mission Site, Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse, T. Pierson Farm, Public School No. 29, Springer Farm, and Wilmington and Western Railroad are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. More recently added sites to the National Register of Historic Places include: Tweed’s Tavern, the home of Negro league baseball player James “Nip” Winters, Colored School #107C, St. John the Evangelist Church, the Daniel Nichols house, and the Cox/Phillips/Mitchell Agricultural Complex.

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Geography

The community is near the northwestern border of Delaware, within 1.2 mi (1.9 km) of the Pennsylvania border on the east bank of Mill Creek.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 10.0 square miles (26 km), of which 10.0 square miles (26 km) is land and 0.10% is water.