Delano is a

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located in northeastern

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, about 36 miles north of Montello. Delano was the center of a small

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-mining district that saw production from the 1870s to the 1960s. The post office closed in 1927. The community has the name of a local trapper. The remaining buildings at Delano were destroyed by a

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in the 1990s, and only archaeological remains survive at the site today.

Geography

Delano is at an elevation of .

References

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