Ding Dong, Texas

Ding Dong, Texas
—  Unincorporated community  —
Entrance to Ding Dong Dell in the community of Ding Dong
Coordinates: 30°58′48″N 97°46′16″W / 30.980072°N 97.771094°W / 30.980072; -97.771094Coordinates: 30°58′48″N 97°46′16″W / 30.980072°N 97.771094°W / 30.980072; -97.771094
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Bell County, Texas
Founded	1930s
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
- Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)

Ding Dong is an unincorporated community in Central Texas. It is situated on the Lampasas River, eight miles south of Killeen in southwestern Bell County. Ding Dong was supposedly named because of two early settlers in the town, Zulis Bell and Bert Bell, who opened a store and hired an artist, Cohn Hoover, to make a sign for it. The Bells instructed the sign painter to make a sign with two bells on it; inside the bells would be their names and the words "Ding Dong" would be coming out of the bell. Over time a community grew around the store, and it took on the name of the words coming out of the bell: Ding Dong.

External sources

• Name of This Town Rings A Bell Ding Dong, Texas by Clay Coppedge, article from Texasescapes.com
• Ding Dong, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ding Dong, Texas