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Delphi is a city and the county seat of Carroll County, platted in 1828 by General Samuel Milroy on 100 acres donated by William Wilson.

Delphi took its name from the ancient Greek city of Delphi and became the county seat just months after it was founded; Carroll County itself was named for Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.

As of the 2020 census, Delphi had a population of 2,961 people.

The 2020 census counted 1,182 households in Delphi.

Delphi's motto is 'Home of the Wabash and Erie Canal' - at 468 miles, the longest canal ever built in North America, which reached Delphi in 1840 and linked Lake Erie at Toledo with the Ohio River at Evansville.

Delphi has rewatered a segment of the canal in Wabash & Erie Canal Park, where the Wabash & Erie Canal Interpretive Center, opened in 2004, is the only museum designed to tell the canal's whole story, and visitors can ride a replica canal boat named The Delphi.

The Delphi Opera House opened in 1882 on the third floor of the city hall building, hosted performers including Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, was condemned in 1914, and reopened in 2015 after a nearly 20-year restoration by the Delphi Preservation Society.

Seven Delphi properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Carroll County Courthouse, the Delphi Courthouse Square Historic District and the Barnett-Seawright-Wilson House.

Delphi Community High School's teams are the Oracles - a mascot nod to the oracle of ancient Delphi.

In the 2020 census, 12.1 percent of Delphi's residents identified as Hispanic or Latino, one of the higher shares for a small Indiana city.