- Summerfield, Texas
Summerfield is an unincorporated community in northwestern Castro County,
Texas ,United States . It lies alongU.S. Route 60 northwest of the city of Dimmitt, thecounty seat of Castro County. [Rand McNally. "The Road Atlas '08."Chicago :Rand McNally , 2008, p. 98.] Its elevation is 3,937 feet (1,200 m), and it is located at coor dms|34|44|17|N|102|30|26|W|city (34.7381201, -102.5071524). [gnis|1380625] Although Summerfield is unincorporated, it has apost office , with theZIP code of 79085. [ [http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?cnty=cnty&zip=79085 Zip Code Lookup] ]Summerfield was founded as Boom in the late 1890s; it was renamed for surveyor John Summerfield in 1907 because there was another Texas community named Boom. The community was built along the
Pecos & Northern Texas Railway , near Castro Creek and the Deaf Smith and Parmer county lines. [ [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/hns99.html Summerfield, Texas (Castro County)] , Handbook of Texas Online,2008-01-18 . Accessed2008-08-13 .]References
External links
* [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/hns99.html Profile of Summerfield] from the Handbook of Texas Online
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