Building in Delta County
Delta County is in northeastern Texas, seventy miles from the eastern state line and thirty miles from the northern one. The North Sulphur River marks its north side and the South Sulphur its south, and the two join to form the eastern boundary. The county covers 278 square miles, with Cooper, the seat and largest town, at its center.
The county sits in the Blackland Prairies on undulating ground, at 400 to 500 feet above mean sea level. Soils range from deep clay to clay topped with dark loam. The climate is warm and moist, with about forty-four inches of rain a year. January lows average 31° F and July highs 95°, and the growing season runs 233 days.
Caddo Indians were the first residents, and the Frenchman François Hervey passed through in 1750. Settlers from Kentucky and Tennessee began arriving after 1820, and Ben Franklin had grown into a village by the late 1830s. The land belonged in turn to Red River, Lamar, and Hopkins counties until residents petitioned for their own county in 1868. Lawmakers created Delta County on July 29, 1870. Farming and herding carried the economy after the Civil War.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 8 hail reports in Delta County from 2016 to 2025, 8 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 2 inches. The same records show 7 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 81 mph, and 2 tornadoes. That is why a patio cover’s roof panels, fasteners and posts here are chosen for hail and wind, not only for shade.
