Delila, Virginia
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Delila, Virginia | |
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_at_U.S._Route_58_and_U.S._Route_360_(Philpott_Road)_in_Delila,_Halifax_County,_Virginia.jpg) View south along Highway 119 (Calvary Road) at US 58 / US 360 (Philpott Road) | |
  Delila, Virginia Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia  Delila, Virginia Delila, Virginia (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 36°35′04″N 79°08′26″W / 36.5845°N 79.1405°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| County | Halifax |
| Elevation | 506 ft (154 m) |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 24520 |
| Area code | 434 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1477255 |
Delila is a rural unincorporated community in the southwest corner of Halifax County in the U.S. state of Virginia, located on 
US 360 / 
US 58 (Philpott Highway) at its intersection with SR 119 (Calvary Road) and SR 694 (Medley Road). Delila is 3 miles north of the North Carolina state line, 1 mile east of the Dan River, and roughly halfway between Danville and South Boston, Virginia. The nearest volunteer fire department to Delila is in Turbeville, approximately 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Delila.
The source of the town's name is obscure. Delila was among the tens of thousands of rural communities across the country given their own "fourth-class" post offices in the mid- to late 1800s; it was officially listed as a post village by 1877.[1][2] Samuel S. Brandon, whose family owned the adjoining estate now called Brandon-on-the-Dan, was postmaster of Delila in the late 1800s, running the mail facility out of his store,[3] a common practice at the time. Delila continued to be noted as a "post-hamlet" in gazetteers at least as late as the 1920s,[4] although the reference may have been dated – thousands of small rural post offices were closed in the early 1900s after the advent of rural free delivery,[5] many of them within just a few years of opening. The Delila area is now served by the post office at Alton, Virginia (ZIP code 24520), 9 miles (14 km) east.
