Town file
Delta, Ohio
Delta, Ohio is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 510, "The Scariest Barn On Earth" (13 July 2024). In July 2016 Sierra Joughin, known to everyone as C, was 20 years old and living west of Toledo, Ohio.
- Town
- Delta
- State
- Ohio
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 510
- Approximate location
- 41.579, -84.021
Episode 510 / 13 July 2024 / 68 min / express
The Scariest Barn On Earth
"Delta Ohio is where we're going to here. It is west of Toledo." about 0:03:22
The case: Murder of Sierra Joughin (July 2016); Abduction of Robin Gardner (July 4th, 1990); Disappearance of Claudia Tinsley (1996). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2024
- Population
- 2,790 people
- Median household income
- about $67,000
- Median home value
- $176,400
History, in brief
- The first settlement was made in the early 1830s. about 0:04:43
- There has been a post office in the town since about 1837. about 0:04:47
- The area around the town was known as the Six-Mile Woods, an area six miles wide and 20 miles long with giant oak and walnut trees four feet in diameter. about 0:05:17
- The town was called Tad Moore, then Tad Pole, then Green Springs, then Slab Shanty, then Fingerville, before it became Delta. about 0:05:32
- The town motto is 'the community of opportunity'. about 0:04:18
- One of the earliest industries was the export of eggs by Mr Howard and Mr Moore, who shipped 60 to 80 barrels each week, averaging 80 dozen eggs per barrel. about 0:08:59
- When the Delta Chicken Festival began in the 1950s, Delta was home to one of the largest chicken hatcheries in the area as well as many chicken finishing farms. about 0:09:23
The reviews read out
5 stars
"Great small town, very safe, friendly people, good school system, an excellent place to raise children, affordable housing; moved here 30 years ago and never regretted it."about 0:06:35
4 stars
"One sentence only: there is a lot to do, but not everyone uses it."about 0:07:03
3 stars
"It can be unpredictable sometimes, with roads that seem to move overnight."about 0:07:15
1 star
"Calls it Deltucky: a dumpy, dirty, corrupt town, the worst town in the county, with hundreds of freight trains, thousands of semi trucks, traffic jams at shift changes, expensive taxes and utilities, seven mobile home parks in the zip code and not one decent, horrible schools and loads of misdemeanour crime."about 0:07:34
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Jackson, Michigan50 miles
- Brownstown Township, Michigan55 miles
- Auburn, Indiana56 miles
- Webster Township, Michigan56 miles
- Coldwater, Michigan56 miles
- Canton Township, Michigan57 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.