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History · Delta City

Delta City’s post office opened in 1950

Below: maps from 1939 on.

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How Delta City began

When was Delta City founded?

1950

The Delta City post office opened in 1950, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 7076 years
Founding year: the first Delta City post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Delta City’s past

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The story so far

Delta City, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Delta City yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Delta City is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located on Mississippi Highway 434 in Sharkey County, Mississippi. Delta City is approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Panther Burn and approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Nitta Yuma. Although an unincorporated community, Delta City has a zip code of 39061. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 70. On the afternoon of Sunday, February 21, 1971, a large and long-tracked F5 tornado impacted Delta City, obliterating most of the town.

Its first post office opened in 1950.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Delta City, 1907 to 1950

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Born hereSollie Cohen is born here
  3. 1939On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1950Post officeThe Delta City post office opens
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On the map

Delta City on the map, 1939 to 1968

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Delta City. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Delta City on the 1939 USGS mapDelta City on the 1968 USGS map1939Swan Lake sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Delta City.

Questions about Delta City’s history

What year was Delta City founded?

The Delta City post office opened in 1950, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.