The town of Delphos snuffed itself out this fall, and no one noticed.<\/p>\n
The community of 25 submitted a notice of discontinuance to the City Development Board that was accepted Oct. 4<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n A lot of the people in the town are people you wouldn\u2019t want on the Council, to put it nicely. We can\u2019t keep a City Clerk\u2014we don\u2019t pay enough as an incentive for someone to do the bookwork. It just came to the point where we just need to give it up.<\/em><\/p>\n Delphos, in southwestern Ringgold County, is so remote Google Street View hasn’t been there yet. The county road that serves it is a narrow blacktop, not uncommon in that part of the state. I passed through in 2014 and didn’t see anything that merited a picture.<\/p>\n I have expected a cascade of disincorporations to start at any time; so far, though, it’s only about one a year. We ended up with two in 2017 because Mount Union’s dissolution got messy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The town of Delphos snuffed itself out this fall, and no one noticed. The community of 25 submitted a notice of discontinuance to the City Development Board that was accepted Oct. 4 (PDF). A lot of the people in the … Continue reading