Delhi, Louisiana Town of Delhi Revised photo, town hall in Delhi, LA IMG 7337 1.jpg Location of Delhi in Louisiana Location of Louisiana in the United States Downtown Delhi looking south along La 17 Abandoned theater in downtown Delhi Commercial Capital Bank is positioned in downtown Delhi athwart the street from the First Baptist Church.
First Baptist Church at 306 Broadway Street in downtown Delhi; pastor Mickey Bounds (2013) Delhi United Methodist Church is positioned athwart the street from Delhi High School.
Delhi High School, with mascot "The Bears", is directed by the Richland Parish School Board.
Trees in the reservoir north of Poverty Point Reservoir State Park near Delhi Delhi, originally called Deerfield, is a town in Richland Parish, Louisiana, in the United States.
During the American Civil War Delhi and Monroe, the seat of Ouachita Parish, were overcrowded with unwelcome refugees from non-urban areas to the east when the forces of General U.S.
Winters reported "strong Union sympathy" in both Delhi and Monroe. In the 1940s, Delhi was the center of a large natural gas boom, and a several functioning gas fields still surround the town.
From 1968-1969, Delhi Fire Department was home to the now defunct Louisiana State Police - Troop O.
On February 21, 1971, Louisiana's only recorded F5 tornado hit outside of Delhi.
It took forty-six lives and was the deadliest F5 tornado to hit the United States since the Jackson, Mississippi, Candlestick Park Tornado in 1966 and the earliest confirmed F5 tornado amid a year.
Delhi has a drug store, the E.W.
Delhi is positioned at 32 27 21 N 91 29 36 W (32.455948, -91.493345). The town lies at the confluence of US Highway 80 and Louisiana Highway 17, and near to Interstate Highway 20.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2), of which, 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (2.33%) of it is water.
The altitude of 89 ft (27 m) spared Delhi from the brunt of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 that finished most of the encircling Mississippi River Delta area.
The Poverty Point Reservoir, which hosts the acclaimed Black Bear Golf Club and the Poverty Point Reservoir State Park, is positioned just north of Delhi on Louisiana State Highway 17 near Warden.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $21,763, and the median income for a family was $25,651.
Public schools in Richland Parish are directed by the Richland Parish School Board.
Three campuses serve the town of Delhi - Delhi Elementary School (Grades PK-4), Delhi Middle School (Grades 5-8), Delhi High School (Grades 9-12), and Delhi Charter School (DCS) (K-12).
Lenny Fant, basketball coach at the University of Louisiana at Monroe from 1957 1979, coached at Delhi High School from 1950-1953 Johnny Hedgemon Jr., Delhi High School football standout 2008-2011 (1st athlete to sign nationwide letter of intent in 21 years), college football tight end (Grambling State) 2011-2014 SWAC Championship 2011 BS MS, Dallas police officer Marvin, judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit from 1975 to 1999; worked as news editor at Delhi Dispatch c.
Steve Pylant, former sheriff of Franklin Parish and Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, resides in Franklin Parish near Delhi Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963, ISBN 0-8071-0834-0, pp.
"Greg Hilburn, Delhi drug store jubilates 140 years: E.
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