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Delight is a town in the southeast corner of Pike County, near Wolf Creek, and it was a center of the south Arkansas timber industry in the early twentieth century.

White settlers began arriving along Wolf Creek in the late eighteenth century, and a post office was granted for the area on January 18, 1832.

Delight got its name from townsite donor William H. Kirkham, a Confederate veteran who gave the land for the railroad town and, asked to name it, declared, 'This is such a delightful place to live, we shall call the town Delight.'

Delight was incorporated in 1904 — the petition was filed July 25, 1904 and made official that September — with John Brock as its first mayor.

Samuel Hasley had purchased the roughly forty-three acres that became the townsite from the United States for $1.25 an acre.

The 2020 census counted 288 people in Delight, up slightly from 279 in 2010; the town peaked at 574 residents in 1950 and today covers about 0.55 square miles.

Delight's students attend the South Pike County School District, formed on July 1, 2010 when the Delight district merged with Murfreesboro's, with classes at Murfreesboro Elementary School and Murfreesboro High School.

Some of the earliest settler families around Delight included the Kirkhams, Kelleys, Dixons, Dosses, Carpenters, Mobleys, Wards, and Hancocks.

Delight sits in the southeast corner of Pike County, whose seat is Murfreesboro, home of the Crater of Diamonds State Park.

The town's recorded history, including its 1832 post office origins, was compiled in Odell Kelley Hughes's 1978 Early History of Pike County, Arkansas, published by the Pike County Heritage Club.