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History · Delco

Delco’s post office opened in 1918

Most of Delco was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1954.

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How Delco began

When was Delco founded?

1918

The Delco post office opened in 1918, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, New Berlin (1907), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 287108 years
Founding year: the first Delco post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Delco’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Delco are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Delco’s homes were built before 1954.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Delco’s history is told.

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The story so far

Delco, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1918. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 348 to 287 (-18%).

Timeline

Delco, 1907 to 1918

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe New Berlin post office opens
  3. 1918Post officeThe New Berlin post office closes
  4. 1918Post officeThe Delco post office opens
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Delco, decade by decade

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

Delco’s post office has been open since 1918. Another post office, New Berlin, opened and closed inside today’s town.

New Berlin
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Delco
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Hamlets and corners on the map
New Berlin

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Delco’s history

What year was Delco founded?

The Delco post office opened in 1918, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikimedia Commons (1), 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.