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Welcome to Delay ...

Delay is located in Lafayette County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Delay, you might consider that their post office opened in 1848.

Delay is 360 feet [110 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Delay lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Delay: 662 & 471<3>

Communities Also Named Delay ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Delay - they are located in Arkansas and Illinois.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Delay.

Communities near Delay ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Delay.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Delay. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Delay.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Delay. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Delay.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Delay. See our Newspapers Page for Delay.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Delay ...

Looking for more information about Delay? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Delay, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Delay.

Adding Delay to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Delay in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Delay was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Delay post office opened in 1848. The Delay post office closed in 1959.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Delay.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Lafayette, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Delay - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 662 code has been Overlayed with the 471 area code. New phone numbers in the Delay area will be assigned with one of these codes: 662 or 471. As a result, placing a call in the Delay area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/