in higher northern areas where a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) exists because January averages below freezing. Average monthly temperatures in Talleyville range from 31.1 °F in January to 75.4 °F in July, while at the interchange of Interstate 95/495 and Naamans Road they range from 32.8 °F in January to 77.4 °F in July. PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State U The hardiness zone is 7a except near the Delaware River where it is 7b. Transportation Important roads include portions of Interstate 95, Interstate 495, Concord Pike (U.S. Route 202), Powder Mill Road (Delaware Route 141), Naamans Road and Thompson Bridge Road (Delaware Route 92), Marsh Road (Delaware Route 3), Foulk Road (Delaware Route 261), Delaware Route 491, and the old main highway between Wilmington and Philadelphia, now Philadelphia Pike (U.S. Route 13). A portion of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, subsequently the main north–south line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and now Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, follows the Delaware River, and a portion of the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, now CSX Transportation's Philadelphia Subdivision, approximately follows the Fall Line. In media Mitchell Hundred, the fictional mayor of New York City and central protagonist of Brian K. Vaughn's comic book series Ex Machina, notes that his surname was derived from Brandywine Hundred, where his ancestors originally settled. Education Brandywine School District serves Brandywine Hundred. Famous residents Joe Biden, President of the United States, lived a large part of his life in Claymont John Carney, Governor of Delaware, Claymont See also Ebright Azimuth John Grubb (Delaware settler) Valentine Hollingsworth Notes References Hundreds in New Castle County, Delaware