# Delaware, Indiana

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{{distinguish|Delaware County, Indiana}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
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|official_name          = Delaware, Indiana
|settlement_type        = [Unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) and [Census-designated place](/source/Census-designated_place)
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|pushpin_map            = Indiana#USA
|pushpin_label          = Delaware
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|subdivision_type       = [Country](/source/Countries_of_the_world)
|subdivision_name       = [United States](/source/United_States)
|subdivision_type1      = [State](/source/U.S._state)
|subdivision_name1      = [Indiana](/source/Indiana)
|subdivision_type2      = [County](/source/List_of_counties_in_Indiana)
|subdivision_name2      = [Ripley](/source/Ripley_County%2C_Indiana)
|subdivision_type3      = [Township](/source/List_of_townships_in_Indiana)
|subdivision_name3      = [Delaware](/source/Delaware_Township%2C_Ripley_County%2C_Indiana)
|established_title      = Platted
|established_date       = 16 May 1870
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|timezone               = [Eastern](/source/Eastern_Time_Zone)
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|elevation_ft           = 938
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|postal_code_type       = [ZIP code](/source/ZIP_code)
|postal_code            = 47037
|area_codes              = [812](/source/Area_code_812), [930](/source/Area_code_930)
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|blank_info             = 18-17506<ref name="GR2">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=US Census Bureau|accessdate=31 January 2008|title=US Census website}}</ref>
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|blank1_info            = 2830512<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|2830512}}</ref>
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'''Delaware''' is an [unincorporated community](/source/unincorporated_area) in [Delaware Township](/source/Delaware_Township%2C_Ripley_County%2C_Indiana), [Ripley County](/source/Ripley_County%2C_Indiana), in the [U.S. state](/source/U.S._state) of [Indiana](/source/Indiana).<ref name=gnis/>

==History==
Delaware was [plat](/source/plat)ted in 1870.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake|url-access=registration|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/n129 112]|quote=This village was platted on May 16, 1870.}}</ref> An old variant name of the community was called '''Rei'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:4:0::NO:4:P4_FID,P4_OBJECTID,P4_FNAME:433448,31629249,Rei|title=USGS detail on Delaware - Variant Citation|accessdate=5 March 2017}}</ref>

A post office was established at Delaware in 1838, and operated until 1933.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Ripley|title=Ripley County|publisher=Jim Forte Postal History|accessdate=5 March 2017}}</ref>

==Demographics==
The [United States Census Bureau](/source/United_States_Census_Bureau) first delineated Delaware as a [census designated place](/source/census_designated_place) in the 2022 [American Community Survey](/source/American_Community_Survey).<ref>{{Cite web|title=2022 Geography Changes|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/table-and-geography-changes/2022/geography-changes.html|publisher=[United States Census Bureau](/source/United_States_Census_Bureau) |access-date=}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Ripley County, Indiana}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Ripley County, Indiana
Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana

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