| Delila, Virginia | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | Virginia#USA |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Virginia |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Halifax |
| Population As Of: | 2000 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 506 |
| Coordinates: | 36.5845°N -79.1405°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 24520 |
| Area Code: | 434 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 1477255 |
Delila is a rural unincorporated community in the southwest corner of Halifax County in the U.S. state of Virginia, located on / (Philpott Highway) at its intersection with SR 119 (Calvary Road) and SR 694 (Medley Road). Delila is 3 miles north of the North Carolina state line, 1 mile east of the Dan River, and roughly halfway between Danville and South Boston, Virginia. The nearest volunteer fire department to Delila is in Turbeville, approximately 7miles northeast of Delila.
The source of the town's name is obscure. Delila was among the tens of thousands of rural communities across the country given their own "fourth-class" post offices in the mid- to late 1800s; it was officially listed as a post village by 1877. Samuel S. Brandon, whose family owned the adjoining estate now called Brandon-on-the-Dan, was postmaster of Delila in the late 1800s, running the mail facility out of his store, a common practice at the time. Delila continued to be noted as a "post-hamlet" in gazetteers at least as late as the 1920s, although the reference may have been dated – thousands of small rural post offices were closed in the early 1900s after the advent of rural free delivery, many of them within just a few years of opening. The Delila area is now served by the post office at Alton, Virginia (ZIP code 24520), 9miles east.
The Greater Brandon Chapel Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African American congregation whose building is located 1.5 miles southwest of Delila on SR 767 (Brandon Chapel Road) off Highway 119.
Sites near Delila that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places include:
Both of these properties are also on the Virginia Department of Historic Resources list of historic African American sites in Virginia.