- Cotton Center, Texas
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Cotton Center Town Country United States
State Texas
Region Llano Estacado County Hale County Elevation 1,059 m (3,474 ft) [1] Coordinates 33°59′35″N 101°59′35″W / 33.99306°N 101.99306°W Area 54.7 km2 (21 sq mi) Population 174 (2000) Founded 1925 Government unincorporated Timezone Central (CST) (UTC-6) Postal code 79021 Area code 806 Website: Handbook of Texas: Cotton Center] Cotton Center is an unincorporated community in western Hale County, Texas, United States, located approximately 12 miles southwest of Hale Center. Until the late 19th century the Comanche tribe of Native-Americans occupied the area. In 1907, with the coming of a branch of the Santa Fe Railroad, a number of farming operations were established. Cotton Center was originally created in 1925 as a consolidated school district, with a small town site, containing the school, cotton gins and various businesses to support the surrounding farms.[2] In 1935 a local post office opened, and the first irrigation well was drilled.[2] By the late 1940s irrigation wells proliferated, pumping water from the Ogallala Aquifer. The community revolves around farming and is tied together by the school, which as of 2005 had 140 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
Cotton Center has remained stable population wise for the past 10 years.
See also
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cotton Center
- ^ a b Payne, Julia M.. "Cotton Center, TX (Hale County)". Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hlc52. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
External links
- Cotton Center, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online
- Cotton Center ISD
- Mary L. Cox, History of Hale County, Texas (Plainview, Texas, 1937)
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cotton Center, Texas
Municipalities and communities of Hale County, Texas County seat: Plainview Cities Abernathy‡ | Hale Center | Petersburg | Plainview
Town CDP Unincorporated
communityCotton Center
Ghost town Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
Categories:- Populated places in Hale County, Texas
- Unincorporated communities in Texas
- Texas geography stubs
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