Septic records and services in Fenwick Island, Delaware

In Sussex County, Delaware, which covers Fenwick Island, we hold 8,550 septic records. Parcels there are not yet classified septic against sewer, so this page reports documents held and nothing beyond them.

What Fenwick Island is, in the records

Fenwick Island is a town in Sussex County, Delaware. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 38.460303, -75.053286 and its land area at 0.33 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the town level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.

What we hold for the county that covers Fenwick Island

We hold 8,550 septic records for Sussex County, Delaware. That is a substantial partial collection rather than a complete one, so a Fenwick Island property may or may not appear in it, and the county archive remains the authority. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.

Start from who you are

Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.

Questions people ask

Does Parcel Perfect have a septic count for Fenwick Island?

No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Sussex County, Delaware, which covers Fenwick Island, we hold 8,550 septic records. Parcels there are not yet classified septic against sewer, so this page reports documents held and nothing beyond them.

Which county is Fenwick Island in?

Fenwick Island is in Sussex County, Delaware.

Records and services around Fenwick Island

• Sussex County septic records — what we hold, and where the county keeps the originals
• Delaware septic regulations — the rules that actually bind here, which no page on this site restates from memory
• Delaware septic records index

ZIP codes that overlap Fenwick Island

From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Fenwick Island’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.

• ZIP 19944 (100% of the town)

Nearest other places

Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Fenwick Island.

• South Bethany — 3.9 mi
• Bethany Beach — 5.4 mi
• Ocean View — 5.5 mi
• Millville — 6.7 mi
• Selbyville — 8.2 mi
• Frankford — 10.6 mi
• Dagsboro — 12.0 mi
• Long Neck — 12.6 mi
• Dewey Beach — 16.3 mi
• Millsboro — 16.5 mi
• Rehoboth Beach — 17.8 mi
• Henlopen Acres — 18.4 mi
• Lewes — 22.5 mi
• Georgetown — 24.0 mi
• Milton — 25.8 mi
• Delmar — 26.6 mi
• Laurel — 29.0 mi
• Ellendale — 31.4 mi
• Bethel — 31.6 mi
• Blades — 32.0 mi
• Seaford — 33.2 mi
• Lincoln — 34.5 mi
• Slaughter Beach — 34.6 mi
• Bridgeville — 34.9 mi
• Milford — 36.9 mi
• Greenwood — 37.6 mi
• Houston — 39.8 mi
• Farmington — 40.1 mi

Get the septic design for a property here

Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Sussex County, Delaware.

Open the parcel map and design tool