Cotton Center, Texas

Cotton Center, Texas
Unincorporated community

Tower holding water from the Ogallala Aquifer
Map of Texas
Cotton Center
Coordinates: 33°59′35″N 101°59′35″W / 33.99306°N 101.99306°WCoordinates: 33°59′35″N 101°59′35″W / 33.99306°N 101.99306°W
Country  United States
State  Texas
County Hale
Region Llano Estacado
Established 1925
Elevation[1] 3,474 ft (1,059 m)
Population (2000)
 • Total 174
Time zone CST (UTC-6)
ZIP code 79021
Area code 806
Website Handbook of Texas

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 unincorporated community 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.

Education

The community of Cotton Center is served by the Cotton Center Independent School District and home to the Cotton Center High School Elks.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cotton Center". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Payne, Julia M. "Cotton Center, TX (Hale County)". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 30 December 2010.

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