Kenton is a town in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 261 at the 2010 census. History The Village of Kenton is a crossroads community located at the intersection of Route 42 and Route 300 in Kenton Hundred, Delaware. The village dates from the last decade of the 18th century, but did not achieve its peak until the last half of the 19th century when the Delaware and Maryland Railroad line was put through from Clayton to Maryland. Kenton was first laid out in 1796 by Philip Lewis who had begun to acquire property in the area five years before in 1791. The community was first known as Georgetown, then as Lewis Crossroads and finally, in 1806, by the name of Kenton. The Kenton Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Other sites at or near Kenton on the National Register of Historic Places are the: George Arnold House, Aspendale, Thomas Attix House, J. F. Betz House, Benjamin Blackiston House, W. D. Burrows House, Scene of Cheyney Clow's Rebellion, Clark-Pratt House, Cooper House, Thomas Davis House, N. C. Downs House, T.H. Denny House, Green Mansion House (Kenton, Delaware), Robert Hill House, Hoffecker-Lockwood House, Alfred L. Hudson House, Kenton Post Office, Thomas Lamb Farm, Thomas Lamb House, Jefferson Lewis House, Delaplane McDaniel House, Poinsett House, Somerville, William Stevens House, James Williams House, and Wright-Carry House. Geography Kenton is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Infrastructure Transportation Kenton is located at the intersection of Delaware Route 42 and Delaware Route 300. DE 42 passes northwest–southeast through the town on Commerce Street, heading northwest toward Blackiston and east toward Cheswold, where it has an intersection with U.S. Route 13 that provides access to the city of Dover to the south. DE 300 passes southwest–northeast through the town on Main Street, heading west toward the Maryland border and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and northeast toward Smyrna, where it has an intersection with US 13 that provides access to the city of Wilmington to the north. Utilities Delmarva Power, a subsidiary of Exelon, provides electricity to Kenton. Chesapeake Utilities provides natural gas to the town. Trash collection in Kenton is provided by private haulers including Waste Industries, RPJ Waste Services, Inc., and Waste