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Delphi, Indiana

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The city of Delphi is located in Carroll County and is the county seat.

Delphi is 180 feet [54.86 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Delphi lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Delphi can be found in:

 OhioWest Virginia
 Pennsylvania 
 Tennessee (historic<2>) 
 Washington 

At the time of the 2000 Census, Delphi had a population of 3,015 people<3> (or 14.96% of the total population of Carroll County). The population of Delphi represented 0.05% of the total of Indiana, making it the state's 145th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Delphi had a population of 2,862 people. This is a decrease of 5.07% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Delphi.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
20082,862-5.07%-0.63% since 2007
20072,880-4.48%-0.69% since 2006
20062,900-3.81%-0.96% since 2005
20052,928-2.89% 
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20003,015The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Battle Ground   SW11 mi [17.7 km]1,4257.71% increase
 Brookston   W10 mi [16.09 km]1,5768.21% decrease
 Dayton   S15 mi [24.14 km]1,2087.86% increase
 Flora   E8 mi [12.87 km]2,0856.38% decrease
 Lafayette   SW16 mi [25.75 km]64,04913.57% increase
 Logansport   NE19 mi [30.58 km]18,6635.19% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Delphi.

Website for Delphi

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Delphi or Carroll County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.


Official Website:   www.cityofdelphi.org/
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Search for Local Businesses

People have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Delphi. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

Lodging     Gas Stations     Banks              
Bed & Breakfast     Truck Stops     Real Estate    
Campgrounds      Rentals    
Restaurants     Auto Repair      
 RV Repair     Churches    
Food/Groceries        
Pharmacy     Auto Parts     Libraries    
  RV Parts     Schools    
Attractions     Motorcycle Parts     Government Offices    
     
Fishing/Hunting     Hospitals      
Hiking/Camping     Doctors      
  Dentists      
Other...     Veterinarians      

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Off-the-Road Links

The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Delphi:

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Delphi? Please visit the Map Page for Delphi.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Delphi - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Delphi, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<3>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Delphi.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Delphi and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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