Editing Delta, Utah (section)

==History==
Delta was originally a [[railroad switch]] called '''Aiken'''. In 1905 Aiken was renamed '''Melville''' when Millard County began plans to set up irrigation and a dam.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Utah|first1=Delta|title=History :: Delta, Utah ::|url=http://www.delta.utah.gov/res_vis_resources.history.html|website=www.delta.utah.gov|access-date=October 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021071007/http://www.delta.utah.gov/res_vis_resources.history.html|archive-date=October 21, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> People purchased land for 50 cents an acre as long as they agreed to develop a 40-acre lot. The name was changed again because of the similarities between Melville and Millville, another town in Utah. The name was changed on 12 May 1908 to '''Burtner'''. The name was finally changed to Delta on May 11, 1911. The name was chosen as the area was a delta of the Sevier River.<ref>{{cite web|title=Delta History|url=http://users.gavtron.com/millardcounty.com/deltahist.html|website=users.gavtron.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Utah History Encyclopedia|url=http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/d/DELTA.html|website=www.uen.org|access-date=October 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113125647/http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/d/DELTA.html|archive-date=January 13, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Topaz Relocation Camp===
{{Main|Topaz War Relocation Center}}
[[File:Topaz Museum site in Delta, Utah (20494680162).jpg|thumb|Topaz Museum in Delta, Utah]]
During [[World War II]], after the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]], tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans were gathered up and placed in 10 [[Internment of Japanese Americans|incarceration camps]] to protect military installations from espionage. One of these camps, then called ''Central Utah Relocation Center'', was located near Delta and filled with former residents of the [[Bay Area|San Francisco Bay Area]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Topaz/|title = Topaz &#124; Densho Encyclopedia}}</ref>

The Topaz Museum, located in Delta, works to preserve important sites at the relocation center and to provide information on the history of the camps.<ref name=topazMuseum>{{cite web | title=Topaz Museum|url=http://www.topazmuseum.org/| access-date=July 1, 2016}}</ref>

===Great Basin Museum===
A history of the area is kept and displayed at The Great Basin Museum.<ref>[http://greatbasinmuseum.com/ Great Basin Museum]</ref>

===Gunnison Massacre Site===
[[Image:GunnisonByPhilKonstantin.jpg|thumb|upright|Two markers at the Gunnison site, 2008]]
[[John Williams Gunnison]] was leading a federal surveying team near the [[Sevier Lake]]. He was ambushed by the [[Pahvant]] Indians and killed.<ref name="gunnison">{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/cure/historyculture/explorer_gunnison.htm |title=John W. Gunnison Expedition |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>