{{Use American English|date=June 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Banning, Delaware |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |nickname = |other_name = |motto =

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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 19941 |area_code = 302 |blank_name = GNIS feature ID |blank_info = |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Banning''', Delaware, USA was a stop in Cedar Creek Hundred on the now defunct Queen Anne's Railroad line between Ellendale and Greenwood positioned at the NE corner of what now is Road 44/Blacksmith Shop Road<ref> {{cite book |title= Laws of the State of Delaware, Volume 20|last=Delaware |year=1895 |publisher=Delaware General Assembly |volume= 20|page=536 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JylFAAAAYAAJ&q=Banning+%22Queen+Anne%22+Railroad&pg=PA536 |access-date=2011-02-13|quote=... appoint three judicious and impartial citizens of road- Sussex county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to go upon and view the lands and determine whether there is need of a public road in Cedar Creek Hundred, county and State aforesaid, beginning in the public road leading from Bridgeville to Milford, on lands of Mark L. Banning, a short distance to the westward of said Banning's dwelling house; thence in a northerly direction through said Banning's land to lands of John R. Hemmonds and Mary P. Hemmon...}} This led to the development of Blacksmith Shop Rd.</ref> and Delaware Route 16/Beach Highway. After the railroad closed down and the tracks were removed, all Banning, Delaware property owned by the railroad was returned to Mark L. Banning, its previous landowner. A small town built around the Banning, Delaware stop disappeared.

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