{"data":[{"twn_id":1,"twn_name":"Amy","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.417238","twn_lon":"-95.688123","twn_elev":123,"twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"The provided GPS coordinates indicate the location 3 miles North of Cooper.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"
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Amy<\/b> was on the East Fork of Big Creek three miles north of Cooper<\/i> in central Delta County. The site, located on the A. Askey survey, was settled early in the 1800s. The Amy school<\/sch> opened sometime around 1890; Jim Smith was one of the first instructors. In 1894 Robert Andrew Nicholson began a postal service, and the settlement was officially named Amy<\/i>, but only after the postal department rejected the name Hobbs<\/i>. The school was the center of the community. Records for 1904 listed seventy-six students and one teacher. The following year the post office was closed, and the area began to decline. In 1929 the school merged with Mulberry<\/sch> to form Clark School<\/sch>. By 1936 Amy<\/i> was no longer identified on maps, but in 1939 it reported one business and twenty-five residents. In 1952 the store had closed, but twenty-five residents remained in the area. In 1964 a few scattered dwellings marked the old community site.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Source: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/amy-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Amy, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/amy-tx.<\/p>","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":51,"twn_name":"Andersonville","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Lake Creek<\/twn> town record for the general GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Andersonville<\/b>, as a town, was located in the general area of Lake Creek<\/twn>. The Handbook of Texas references that the Andersonville School<\/sch> was consolidated into the Lake Creek<\/twn> school system about 1910. Other than the school there are no specific references about the town of Andersonville.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lake-creek-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Lake Creek, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lake-creek-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":2,"twn_name":"Antioch","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.378133","twn_lon":"-95.800283","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":10,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Antioch<\/b> is on Farm Road 64 six miles west of Cooper in western Delta County. The site, originally part of the Moses Williams land grant, was settled by 1849, when four trustees obtained title to land for the Antioch Cemetery. Cotton was an important local crop in the early years, but honey became the major product after Charles H. \"Honey\" Smith began the industry in 1850. An Antioch school opened in 1879; classes met in the local church. In 1889 the Antioch Baptist Church held membership in the Delta County Baptist Association. The town was established the following year. In 1905 the school had ninety-five students and two teachers. In 1936 the site was not identified on maps, but one business, the school, and a cluster of dwellings were shown. The school was merged with the Pecan Gap and Cooper school districts in 1950. In 1964 the church and a few scattered dwellings were at the site. Antioch reported a population of twenty-five in 1970 and appeared on maps for 1984. In 1990 and 2000 the reported population was still twenty-five.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/antioch-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Antioch, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/antioch-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":31,"twn_name":"Bagley","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Jot 'Em Down<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Bagley<\/b>, more commonly known as Jot 'Em Down<\/twn>, but also known as Mohegan<\/i>, and Muddig Prairie<\/i>, is at the intersection of Farm Roads 904 and 1532, in extreme western Delta County. The area was part of the James H. Larabee survey and was occupied by 1885, when the Bagley School opened. In 1905 the school enrolled forty-six students and employed one teacher. Bagley was shown on the 1936 county highway map as an unidentified settlement of one business and scattered dwellings at a site on dirt roads between the forks of Jernigan Creek. That year Dion McDonald built a new store, and shortly thereafter the Jot 'Em Down Gin Corporation, named for Lum and Abner's fictional radio store, was organized. The state highway department later used Jot 'Em Down as the community name for maps. In 1949 the Bagley school was consolidated with the Pecan Gap district. A 1964 map showed six farms at Jot 'Em Down. By 1970 local children attended school in the Fannindel Independent School District in Fannin County. The community was still shown on the 1984 county highway map, though no businesses were indicated. Jot 'Em Down in 1990 reported a population of ten. The population remained the same in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/jot-em-down-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Jot 'Em Down, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/jot-em-down-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":86,"twn_name":"Barton","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Lone Star<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Barton<\/b>, more commonly known as Lone Star<\/twn>, but also known as Volney<\/i>, was on the old Bonham and Jefferson road a mile east of Jot 'Em Down in western Delta County. The area was settled by 1878, when the Lone Star school was established. In 1886 a post office opened as Volney, with Ellen S. Billingsley as postmistress; service was discontinued in 1888. The railroad failed to pass through Lone Star, and the settlement declined as larger rail towns, such as nearby Pecan Gap, prospered. By 1936 Lone Star was no longer identified on maps, though at the site were a school, a church, and one business. The school was consolidated with the Pecan Gap system in 1949, and in 1964 only a few scattered farms remained in the area.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lone-star-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Lone Star, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lone-star-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":3,"twn_name":"Ben Franklin","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.476773","twn_lon":"-95.768937","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":60,"twn_zipcode":75415,"twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Ben Franklin<\/b> is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and Farm roads 38 and 128 four miles northeast of Pecan Gap in northwestern Delta County. The settlement was located on Benjamin Simmons's land grant and named for his son. The Simmons family, along with the Birdwells and Hogues, arrived in the area in 1835 and were among the first settlers. The first post office was established by Isaac B. Nelson in 1853 at his one-room cabin on the crossroads. The community, at that time in Lamar County, supported cotton gins, the Greenville Smith sawmill, and the Wynn and Donaldson distillery. In 1854 Taliaferro B. Chaffin donated two acres for a Methodist Episcopal church. Citizens built the structure from materials provided by Smith's sawmill. Funds raised from the sale of whiskey supplied by the distillery paid the pastor's $190 annual salary. The post office was closed in 1859 but reopened in 1867.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nMary Dinnie taught the first school in the settlement, probably established shortly after the Civil War in the vacant side of a double log feed crib. A new facility, though not much more elaborate, was constructed two years later, and a man named Moore taught classes there. In 1870 B. F. Nidever opened the first livery stable and began a stage line to the county seat. By 1884 Ben Franklin was a school district; the community had a population of 200 and thrice-weekly mail service. Cotton ginning and shipment were the major businesses, but others included three sawmills, a shingle manufacturer, two flour mills, and a feed mill. The town also had three general stores, the McGinnis and Company saloon, a restaurant, an apothecary shop, and a blacksmith shop.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nThe Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway built a track just north of Ben Franklin in 1886, and the settlement became a stop on the line by 1889. In 1890 it had a population of 1,000, two hotels, two livery stables, and a telegraph office. John McFall had opened a grocery, and P. H. Snodgrass worked as a sign painter. Citizens could attend new Baptist, Christian, and Adventist churches. In 1892 Ben Franklin supported two new hotels, a doctor had opened an office, and a barber had moved to town. The municipal government consisted of Harvey McIntyre, constable, and J. N. Carroll, justice of the peace. E. Hammond was school principal. The Methodist Episcopal church was moved to a new site donated by John W. Jackson and his wife in 1898.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nIn 1895 the Texas-Midland Railroad built through Cooper, the county seat, with stops at Enloe, Klondike, and Horton. These more centrally located towns drew much of the traffic from Ben Franklin. By 1904 the population had decreased to 343. In 1912 only two businesses remained. Records for 1918 indicated two schools, one for White and one for Black children. The town had 300 people and no businesses in 1925. In 1929 it had 500 residents and a bank. By 1936 the railway had become part of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe system, and the town had seven businesses, a school, three churches, and a population of 300. In 1945 there were 250 residents and seven businesses. In 1964 Ben Franklin had a water tank, two churches, two cemeteries, one business, the post office, and 150 inhabitants. The Ben Franklin school district had been consolidated into the Fannindel system, in Fannin County, by 1970. That year there was a Ben Franklin Community Center. The only business in 1976 was Fremman's Grocery. In 1990 the community had seventy-five residents. The population remained the same in 2000, when the community reported five businesses.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/ben-franklin-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Ben Franklin, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/ben-franklin-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":87,"twn_name":"Bess","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Gough<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Bess<\/b>, more commonly known as Gough<\/twn>, is just south of the intersection of Farm roads 2068 and 1528, six miles southwest of Cooper in southwestern Delta County. It was probably named for Lycurgus Gough, a minister who helped obtain the postal service, or for the owner of the first general store. The area was settled early in the 1880s, and the Goughs were among the early families. The first school opened in 1882. In 1888 the post office opened with John C. Bailey as postmaster. In 1890 the community had fifty residents, including a blacksmith, a carpenter, and three physicians. The major business was the Hollon and Bailey mill and gin, and W. S. Bannister served as justice of the peace. Mail arrived on a semiweekly basis.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nWhen the railroads moved into Delta late in the nineteenth century, they failed to pass through Gough. As Klondike, the nearest rail stop, grew, the surrounding farm communities began to decline. Gough still appeared on postal maps for 1901, but the post office was discontinued the following year. School records for 1905 listed eighty-seven students and one teacher. Maps for 1936 showed a school, a business, and a cluster of dwellings at the site. In 1947 Gough had sixty inhabitants, two stores, the school, and a church. The Gough school district was divided between the West Delta and Cooper districts in 1950. By 1964 only the cemetery remained on the old settlement site. Maps for 1984 still identified the cemetery.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/gough-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Gough, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/gough-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":45,"twn_name":"Bethany","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":52,"twn_name":"Billyville","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"Link to Old Liberty<\/twn>","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":53,"twn_name":"Bittick Prairie","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"Link to Gough<\/twn>","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":54,"twn_name":"Bloody Hollow","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"Link to Craig-Tranquil<\/twn>","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":55,"twn_name":"Blue Prairie","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"Link to Rattan<\/twn>","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":49,"twn_name":"Brushy Creek","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Post Oak<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Brushy Creek<\/b>, more commonly known as Post Oak<\/twn>, but also known as Brushy Mound<\/i>, is a small farming community in central Delta County four miles northeast of Cooper and four miles south of Lake Creek, between Post Oak and Brushy creeks at Farm Road 890 just east of State Highway 24. Little is known about early settlement, but the area was inhabited by 1850, when locals established Brushy Creek School, one of the oldest schools in the county. Early teachers included Mrs. Middleton, Mrs. Anderson, Clem Ratcliff, and Will Ward. By 1905 the school was called Post Oak. Records for that year listed sixty-eight White pupils and one instructor. The community never had a post office, and the school had closed by 1936, when Post Oak appeared on maps as two businesses and an unidentified collection of dwellings at the intersection of a paved road and dirt thoroughfares. In 1964 it had a few scattered homes, Brushy Creek Cemetery<\/cem>, a small lake, a golf course, and a clubhouse. In 1970 local children attended Cooper Independent School District. Post Oak still appeared on maps in 1984.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/post-oak-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Post Oak, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/post-oak-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":50,"twn_name":"Brushy Mound","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Post Oak<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Brushy Mound<\/b>, more commonly known as Post Oak<\/twn>, but also known as Brushy Creek<\/i>, is a small farming community in central Delta County four miles northeast of Cooper and four miles south of Lake Creek, between Post Oak and Brushy creeks at Farm Road 890 just east of State Highway 24. Little is known about early settlement, but the area was inhabited by 1850, when locals established Brushy Creek School, one of the oldest schools in the county. Early teachers included Mrs. Middleton, Mrs. Anderson, Clem Ratcliff, and Will Ward. By 1905 the school was called Post Oak. Records for that year listed sixty-eight White pupils and one instructor. The community never had a post office, and the school had closed by 1936, when Post Oak appeared on maps as two businesses and an unidentified collection of dwellings at the intersection of a paved road and dirt thoroughfares. In 1964 it had a few scattered homes, Brushy Creek Cemetery, a small lake, a golf course, and a clubhouse. In 1970 local children attended Cooper Independent School District. Post Oak still appeared on maps in 1984.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/post-oak-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Post Oak, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/post-oak-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":56,"twn_name":"Buzzard's Roost","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"Link to Milam<\/twn>","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":4,"twn_name":"Camp Rusk","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.480915","twn_lon":"-95.784567","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":57,"twn_name":"Camp Shed","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":5,"twn_name":"Cedar Creek","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.347106","twn_lon":"-95.652470","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Cedar Creek<\/b> was two miles southeast of Cooper, just south of the site of present City Lake, in southern Delta County. Settlement of the area began in the 1840s and 1850s. Early families included the Dawsons and Wrights, and residents established a settlement called Daisy Mission<\/i>. The name was changed to Cedar Creek, named for the forests in the area and for a local creek. The settlers soon organized Cedar Creek School in a log house and by 1867 had established the Cedar Creek School District. In 1905 the school district enrolled forty-seven students and employed one teacher. Local residents organized the Cedar Creek Church in 1929; it met in the school, and T. M. McClain was the first pastor. The congregation sent a messenger to the Delta County Baptist Association meeting in 1931; however, the church was usually without a pastor. In 1949 Cooper Independent School District absorbed the local school, and the church closed soon after. The little community had disappeared from maps by 1964, and only Dawson Cemetery, near the old site, was identified on maps in 1984. The site of Cedar Creek was inundated with the completion of Cooper Lake in 1991. Dawson Cemetery was moved to a new site on Farm Road 1529. The old cemetery site was located within the boundaries of the Doctors Creek Unit of Cooper Lake State Park.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cedar-creek-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Cedar Creek, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cedar-creek-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":6,"twn_name":"Charleston","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.386657","twn_lon":"-95.534964","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":150,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Charleston<\/b> is on Farm Road 895 some nine miles east of Cooper in southeastern Delta County. It is bordered by Evans Branch on the east and McGuyer Branch on the west. The area, originally part of the D. A. Sey Survey, was within Hopkins County until Delta County was formed in 1870. Settlers in 1854 traveled from Charleston, South Carolina, and named the site for their former home. Local residents exploited the abundance of oak and elm trees, and the first local industry was hardwood lumbering. In 1857 a post office opened at the community, with Zachariah R. Terrell as postmaster. In 1861, during the Civil War, local citizens organized the first Texas militia brigade and chose to fight for the Confederacy. The Charleston school district was organized in 1867. When Delta County and its county seat, Cooper, were established in 1870, the new shipping center attracted much of Charleston's business. In 1884 Charleston had 250 residents, three cotton gins, several stores, two wagonmaking enterprises, a flour mill, a sawmill, a gristmill, a church, and a school. In 1890 mail was delivered triweekly from Paris. The population of Charleston had increased to 400 by 1892, when the community also had a weekly newspaper, the News, and a new municipal government. From 1892 to 1897 A. J. Street conducted a teacher-training school in the community. In 1904 the town had 183 inhabitants. Near Charleston, on May 19, 1910, a 500-pound meteorite fell to earth during the passage of Halley's Comet, bringing some publicity to the community. In the 1920s and 1930s Charleston reported a population of 225, a school, a church, a cemetery, and five or six businesses, including a factory. In 1930 the local school was merged with the Vasco, Cleveland, and Long Ridge districts. Ten years later the school was in East Delta Number 2 District. By 1950 Charleston's population was 150. A 1964 map showed two churches, a cemetery, and a cluster of dwellings at the site on Farm Road 895. By 1970 local children attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. The Charleston post office closed in 1972. By 1976 area residents had built the Charleston Community Center. In 2000 the community's population was 120.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/charleston-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Charleston, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/charleston-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":58,"twn_name":"Cherry Mound","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"Link to Kensing<\/twn>. Cherry Mound (old Indian camp); Indians left 8-9 graves; by DCHB Lonnie Masters","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":59,"twn_name":"Clark Ridge","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Clark Ridge<\/b> is located about eight miles east of Cooper<\/i>. Josh Clark settled the community west of Charleston<\/i> and east of Brushy Creek<\/i>. It is said that he operated a mill between 1870-80 to extract seed from the Osage orange (bois d'arc apple). He shipped these seeds to be used in the growing of hedge fences before the age of wire. (George Ross Price, History of Charleston, 1954).\r\n<\/p>

\r\nAt the present time four families live at Clark Ridge<\/i>: Mr. and Mrs. Don Woodard, Mrs. Jolly Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Toon and sons, and Mr. and Mrs. Jason Ingram. (By Shirley Ann Nabors Smith).\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/div>","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":60,"twn_name":"Clem","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Clem<\/b>, more commonly known as Crossroads<\/twn>, but also known at various times as Union<\/i> and Hog Wallow<\/i>, is a small black community at the intersection of Farm roads 2949 and 128, four miles northwest of Enloe in northwestern Delta County. It is bordered to the southwest by the East Fork of Big Creek. The Crossroads school opened as Hog Wallow School in 1895. In 1903 Emmett C. Norwood opened a post office and called the settlement Clem, in honor of a prominent county family. The postal service ended after four years, and residents soon began to call the community Crossroads for its location. Crossroads appeared on maps as an unidentified community in 1936. It had a large school, one business, and a cluster of dwellings at the intersection of Farm Road 128 and a dirt road. By 1960 the school had been absorbed by the Cooper Independent School District. In 1964 the community's population was twenty-five. Crossroads still appeared on maps in 1984 and had ten inhabitants in 1990 and in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/crossroads-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Crossroads, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/crossroads-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":7,"twn_name":"Cleveland","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.407041","twn_lon":"-95.461527","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Cleveland<\/b> was near Farm Road 895 between Kensing and Vasco in eastern Delta County. The Edgar School, one of the county's first, opened there in 1883. The school was named for a local family, but the popularity of President Grover Cleveland led residents to change the name of the community in his honor in 1885. By 1889 citizens had also established the Cleveland Baptist Church, which sent a messenger to Delta County Baptist Association meeting that year. The school had thirty-six White students and one teacher in 1905. In 1939 it was consolidated into the East Delta School District. By 1964 Cleveland no longer appeared on maps.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cleveland-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Cleveland, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cleveland-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":8,"twn_name":"Cooper","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.373955","twn_lon":"-95.688512","twn_elev":482,"twn_size":"1.47","twn_pop":2150,"twn_zipcode":75432,"twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"cooper_town_square.jpg","twn_caption":"Cooper Town Square - 1916","twn_text":"

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Cooper<\/b>, the county seat of Delta County, is at the junction of State highways 24 and 154, some twenty-four miles southwest of Paris in the south central portion of the county. It was founded in 1870 and named for L. W. Cooper of Houston, one of the sponsors of the bill to organize the county in 1870. A post office was established there in 1871, and the town was incorporated with aldermanic government in 1881. Cooper quickly emerged as the market center for the new county and by 1885 reported 300 residents. The construction of the Texas Midland Railroad further spurred the town's growth. In 1896 Cooper comprised 1,000 residents, two churches, and a school, as well as a bank, a shoemaker, a hotel, a grocery store, a wagonmaker, two blacksmith shops, two feed mills, two steam cotton gins and corn mills, two weekly newspapers (the Delta Courier and the People's Cause), three drugstores, and seven general stores. Cooper continued to grow rapidly during the early 1900s. Its population reached a reported high of 2,563 by 1925, thereafter remaining fairly stable. It declined slightly during the 1930s, grew during the 1950s, and declined again in the 1980s. In 1970 Cooper reported sixty businesses, including seed-cleaning plants and some thirty-eight dairies. The city's population was 2,349 in the early 1950s and 2,258 in 1970. Cooper in the early 1990s was a commercial and shipping center for the surrounding agricultural region. In 1991 the incorporated town reported seventy businesses and a population of 2,197. In 2000 the population was 2,150.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cooper-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Christopher Long, “Cooper, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 04, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cooper-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":9,"twn_name":"Craig-Tranquil","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.417220","twn_lon":"-95.642138","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"The GPS coordinates are based on the information in the text below.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Craig-Tranquil<\/b> was a church community 3½ miles northeast of Cooper in central Delta County. The area was settled by 1854, when local residents deeded property to the Craig-Tranquil Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The Tranquil school had opened by 1905, when it enrolled twenty-six pupils and employed one teacher. In 1928 this school merged with the nearby Craig Prairie school to form the Craig-Tranquil district. In 1949 this system was divided between the Enloe and Cooper school districts. By 1964 the community was no longer shown on maps.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/craig-tranquil-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Craig-Tranquil, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/craig-tranquil-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":10,"twn_name":"Crossroads","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.445899","twn_lon":"-95.705080","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":10,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Crossroads<\/b>, known at various times as Union<\/i>, Clem<\/i>, and Hog Wallow<\/i>, is a small black community at the intersection of Farm roads 2949 and 128, four miles northwest of Enloe in northwestern Delta County. It is bordered to the southwest by the East Fork of Big Creek. The Crossroads school opened as Hog Wallow School in 1895. In 1903 Emmett C. Norwood opened a post office and called the settlement Clem, in honor of a prominent county family. The postal service ended after four years, and residents soon began to call the community Crossroads for its location. Crossroads appeared on maps as an unidentified community in 1936. It had a large school, one business, and a cluster of dwellings at the intersection of Farm Road 128 and a dirt road. By 1960 the school had been absorbed by the Cooper Independent School District. In 1964 the community's population was twenty-five. Crossroads still appeared on maps in 1984 and had ten inhabitants in 1990 and in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/crossroads-tx-delta-county* Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Crossroads, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 04, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/crossroads-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":88,"twn_name":"Cuba","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Pacio<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Cuba<\/b>, more commonly known as Pacio<\/twn>, but also known as Lone Elm<\/i>, and Mote's Mill<\/i>, is on Farm Road 198 and a dirt thoroughfare just south of the Old River Channel and north of Lake Creek, about three miles north of Charleston in northwestern Delta County. The area was settled by 1890, when the Lone Elm School opened. In 1892 James Porter Mote established the Pacio post office, misspelling the Spanish word patio. The post office was discontinued in 1905. The name of the community's school changed to Pacio in 1926, and in 1936 the community had the school, a church, two businesses, and a cluster of dwellings. In 1943 the local school system was consolidated into the East Delta district. By 1964 Pacio had the church and a few scattered dwellings, and in 1970 local children attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. A 1984 county highway map showed Pacio with two businesses. The community had fifteen inhabitants in 1990 and 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pacio-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Pacio, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pacio-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":61,"twn_name":"Daisy Mission","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Cedar Creek<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Daisy Mission<\/b> was two miles southeast of Cooper, just south of the site of present City Lake, in southern Delta County. Settlement of the area began in the 1840s and 1850s. Early families included the Dawsons and Wrights, and residents established a settlement called Daisy Mission. The name was changed to Cedar Creek<\/twn>, named for the forests in the area and for a local creek. The settlers soon organized Cedar Creek School in a log house and by 1867 had established the Cedar Creek School District. In 1905 the school district enrolled forty-seven students and employed one teacher. Local residents organized the Cedar Creek Church in 1929; it met in the school, and T. M. McClain was the first pastor. The congregation sent a messenger to the Delta County Baptist Association meeting in 1931; however, the church was usually without a pastor. In 1949 Cooper Independent School District absorbed the local school, and the church closed soon after. The little community had disappeared from maps by 1964, and only Dawson Cemetery, near the old site, was identified on maps in 1984. The site of Cedar Creek was inundated with the completion of Cooper Lake in 1991. Dawson Cemetery was moved to a new site on Farm Road 1529. The old cemetery site was located within the boundaries of the Doctors Creek Unit of Cooper Lake State Park.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cedar-creek-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Cedar Creek, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cedar-creek-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":62,"twn_name":"Darwin","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Lake Creek<\/twn> town record for the general GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Darwin<\/b> was located in the general area of Lake Creek<\/twn>. The Handbook of Texas references that the Darwin school was consolidated into the Lake Creek school system about 1910. Other than the school there are no specific references about the town of Darwin.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lake-creek-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Lake Creek, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lake-creek-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":11,"twn_name":"Doctors Creek","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Doctors Creek<\/b> was a school community on Doctors Creek 1½ miles northwest of Cooper and just south of Price in central Delta County. The earliest settlers, including I. N. Gray, J. A. Good, Volney Rattan, B. F. Hunt, and J. M. Cannon, arrived in 1882 and soon established the one-room Doctors Creek School with Mrs. Cannon as the teacher. In 1905 the community school enrolled forty-four students and employed one teacher. Maps for 1936 did not name the community, but showed the school, a church, and a cluster of dwellings at the intersection of two dirt roads. The Doctors Creek school closed in 1949 when it was consolidated into the Cooper Independent School District. The settlement no longer appeared on maps in 1964.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/doctors-creek-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Doctors Creek, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/doctors-creek-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":63,"twn_name":"Dogtown","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"Klondike area","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":12,"twn_name":"East Delta","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.393387","twn_lon":"-95.512965","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":60,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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East Delta<\/b>, on Farm Road 895 a mile northeast of Charleston in eastern Delta County, was established in 1939 as the site of the East Delta district school. This school was created by the consolidation of the Charleston, Vasco, Cleveland, and Long Ridge schools. By 1964 the facility had closed, but maps identified the East Delta church and cemetery and the Union Grove cemetery in the area. Local students attended school within the Cooper Independent School District by 1970. East Delta had a reported population of fifty in 1990 and 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/east-delta-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “East Delta, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/east-delta-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":64,"twn_name":"Edgar School","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Cleveland<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Edgar School<\/b>, more commonly known as Cleveland<\/twn> was near Farm Road 895 between Kensing and Vasco in eastern Delta County. The Edgar School, one of the county's first, opened there in 1883. The school was named for a local family, but the popularity of President Grover Cleveland led residents to change the name of the community in his honor in 1885. By 1889 citizens had also established the Cleveland Baptist Church, which sent a messenger to Delta County Baptist Association meeting that year. The school had thirty-six White students and one teacher in 1905. In 1939 it was consolidated into the East Delta School District. By 1964 Cleveland no longer appeared on maps.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cleveland-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Cleveland, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cleveland-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":13,"twn_name":"Enloe","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.433251","twn_lon":"-95.658523","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":90,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"enloe.jpg","twn_caption":"Enloe was settled about 1888. This is a picture of the main street along with banks, telegraph office, restaurant, general stores, apothecary, seed store, and lumber company.","twn_text":"

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Enloe<\/b> is at the junction of Farm roads 2949 and 198, three miles north of Cooper in north central Delta County. It is bordered on the southwest by Brushy Creek. The area was settled by 1888, when local residents established a Baptist Church. The town, however, remained unorganized until 1897, when J. A. Enloe donated the land to build a train stop on the Texas-Midland Railroad. That same year Jerry P. High opened the first Enloe post office and reported a population of about 100. The settlement began to develop around the railroad; the church was moved closer to the tracks. Town leaders obtained a school building from nearby Liberty and established the Enloe school district, which quickly absorbed the Mount Hebron, or Hagged, school. Records for 1897 reported one school, two teachers, and 104 students.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nEnloe continued to grow and by 1904 had 273 inhabitants. In 1912 the Baptist congregation built a new church. In 1914 the population was 400. Residents could attend either the Baptist or Methodist Episcopal church and had access to a telephone exchange. Businesses included two banks, a telegraph office, a restaurant, two general stores, an apothecary, a seed store, and a bakery. The Carson Lumber Company was also headquartered in town. Cotton shipping was the major industry, and the community supported seven cotton buyers and two gins. In 1929 the town had 450 inhabitants. In 1936 the population was 265, and the town had a school, two factories, five businesses, a post office, two churches, and about forty homes. But with the onset of World War II, more residents moved away in search of jobs. By 1956 the population totaled 186. The Enloe school district had absorbed most of the nearby schools in 1959, but by 1964 only 150 people lived in town. Seven businesses and the two churches remained, and a hospital had been opened. Maps for 1970 showed that the school had been consolidated into the Cooper Independent School District, and citizens had access to a community center. In 1984 Enloe had three businesses, two churches, and a factory. A population of 113 was reported in 1990 and in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/enloe-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Enloe, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/enloe-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":89,"twn_name":"Eureka","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Needmore<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Eureka<\/b>, more commonly known as Needmore<\/twn>, but also known as Jernigan<\/i>, Pecan<\/i>, and Pecan Branch<\/i>, is a small farming community at the intersection of Farm Road 3132 and a dirt road, between Barnett Creek and the West Fork of Jernigan Creek 1½ miles southeast of Yowell in southwestern Delta County. The area was inhabited during the Republic of Texas era, and in 1850 local residents organized the Jernigan Baptist Church under the leadership of pastor Will Cummings. In 1873 a post office called Pecan (for the local trees) opened, with John W. Pratt as postmaster. By 1882 D. P. Holland had constructed a gristmill, and the population of the community was reported as 100. The post office name was changed to Needmore in 1886. By 1890 the town had Pratt's general store, a blacksmith, a large cotton gin, the office of physician J. M. Logsdon, three gristmills, and three carpenters. By 1892 Logsdon was running the post office, and a municipal government had been established. The school district had been formed as Eureka, and in 1893 the Baptist congregation, which had lost its church in a storm, began meeting in the school building.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nWhen the Texas Midland Railroad built through Delta County in 1895, it bypassed Needmore, which led to the town's decline. The school reported thirty White students and two teachers in 1906, and the next year the post office was discontinued. By 1900 the community population had decreased to fifty. The fellowship moved out of the schoolhouse in 1918 and into a new religious hall. The 1936 county highway map identified Needmore as a church, a school, and a cluster of dwellings at the intersection of two dirt roads. In 1949 the school was absorbed into the West Delta district. Only the church and a few scattered homes remained in 1964, and by 1970 local children attended classes in the Cooper Independent School District. The community was still shown on the 1984 county highway map.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/needmore-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Needmore, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/needmore-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":14,"twn_name":"Friendship","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.313166","twn_lon":"-95.745794","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Friendship<\/b> is at the junction of two dirt roads just south of Klondike and west of Honey Creek in southwestern Delta County. The area was settled as early as 1889 when the Friendship Baptist Church sent a delegate to a Delta County Baptist Association meeting. By the mid-1890s the Friendship School reported fifty-three black students and one teacher. In 1936 the community had the school, the church, a cemetery, and twenty-five dwellings, but was not identified on maps. In 1964 it had the Free Hope Church and a few scattered homes. By 1970 local children attended school in the Cooper Independent School District. In the early 1980s the church and cemetery remained at the site. The construction of the Cooper dam on the South Sulphur River in the late 1980s necessitated the relocation of Friendship Cemetery out of the floodplain to County Road 2020. With impoundment in 1991, much of the area was flooded by the waters of Cooper Lake.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/friendship-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Friendship, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/friendship-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":15,"twn_name":"Giles","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.454830","twn_lon":"-95.797185","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Giles<\/b> was between Ben Franklin and Pecan Gap and just south of the North Sulphur River and Farm Road 128 in extreme northwestern Delta County. The area was originally an Indian hunting ground and became part of the John Evans survey before settlers-including the families of Isaac B. Nelson, James Patterson, and Greenville Smith-arrived there in 1857 from Giles County, Tennessee. In 1858 residents formed a Baptist congregation, and in 1859 they built the Giles Academy, one of only two schools in the area, under the leadership of teacher Thomas B. Hockaday. The building was also the Giles Academy Baptist Church. During the Civil War, Gen. Samuel Bell Maxey's Ninth Texas Infantry performed drills in a nearby encampment, but the area was otherwise virtually untouched by the war. In 1894 the North Sulphur Baptist Church was constructed. By 1905 the Giles school had one teacher and sixty-nine students. Around this time the community also had a store and a gristmill. Its church burned in 1917 and was rebuilt. The 1936 county highway map showed a cemetery and a cluster of dwellings at the site. C. W. Teague became pastor of the community's church in 1941, when it had seventy-one members; by 1944 the congregation had increased to 120. In 1949 the Giles school consolidated with that of Pecan Gap, and the Giles school land was auctioned off. Most of the community's residents moved to Ben Franklin and Pecan Gap. A 1964 map showed only the cemetery and a few scattered dwellings at the site, and by 1970 local students attended school within the Fannindel Independent School District in Fannin County. In 1972 only the cemetery remained at the former townsite. Giles was not shown on maps in 1984.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/giles-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Giles, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/giles-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":65,"twn_name":"Goobler's Knob","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":66,"twn_name":"Good's Chapel","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Good's Chapel<\/b>, more commonly known as Long Taw<\/i>, was just southwest of Cooper on the Old Bonham and Jefferson Road in central Delta County. The settlement developed in the 1850s when freighters hauling cotton, vegetables, and livestock to market began to stop there for water. The name was supposedly given by these drivers because the distance from water at the South Sulphur River crossing to the supply there was a long tow (\"long taw\"). In 1883 local residents established a school that enrolled thirty-seven students and employed one teacher in 1905. When the Texas Midland Railroad built a line through the area in 1895, many people moved to nearby Cooper, which had become an important railroad town. By 1936 Long Taw no longer appeared on maps. The school remained in the vicinity, but it was consolidated into the Cooper district in 1949. Maps for 1964 showed a few scattered dwellings on the site of Long Taw.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/long-taw-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Long Taw, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/long-taw-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":16,"twn_name":"Gough","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.343999","twn_lon":"-95.800518","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Gough<\/b>, also known as Bess<\/i>, is just south of the intersection of Farm roads 2068 and 1528, six miles southwest of Cooper in southwestern Delta County. It was probably named for Lycurgus Gough, a minister who helped obtain the postal service, or for the owner of the first general store. The area was settled early in the 1880s, and the Goughs were among the early families. The first school opened in 1882. In 1888 the post office opened with John C. Bailey as postmaster. In 1890 the community had fifty residents, including a blacksmith, a carpenter, and three physicians. The major business was the Hollon and Bailey mill and gin, and W. S. Bannister served as justice of the peace. Mail arrived on a semiweekly basis.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nWhen the railroads moved into Delta late in the nineteenth century, they failed to pass through Gough. As Klondike, the nearest rail stop, grew, the surrounding farm communities began to decline. Gough still appeared on postal maps for 1901, but the post office was discontinued the following year. School records for 1905 listed eighty-seven students and one teacher. Maps for 1936 showed a school, a business, and a cluster of dwellings at the site. In 1947 Gough had sixty inhabitants, two stores, the school, and a church. The Gough school district was divided between the West Delta and Cooper districts in 1950. By 1964 only the cemetery remained on the old settlement site. Maps for 1984 still identified the cemetery.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/gough-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Gough, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/gough-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":17,"twn_name":"Granny's Neck","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.310944","twn_lon":"-95.647458","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Granny's Neck<\/b>, also known as Old Granny's Neck<\/i> and Harper's Crossing<\/i>, was six miles southeast of Cooper and one mile west of State Highway 154 where the Bonham-Jefferson road crossed the South Sulphur River in south central Delta County. The area was settled in 1846 when Brigidier DeSpain, his wife, Narcissa, and their three daughters arrived from Tennessee to claim land awarded to a relative, Randolph DeSpain, who had been killed with James Walker Fannin, Jr., at Goliad. Their survey was situated on both sides of the road, a major thoroughfare for transporting cotton. Soon after they settled, the DeSpains built a bridge across the South Sulphur on the highest ridge of land in the vicinity. The new bridge, sturdy and high enough to escape flooding, made the road an even more popular trade route. More settlers joined the DeSpains, including Mary \"Granny\" Sinclair, matriarch of the Sinclair family, who raised goats on a neck of land that jutted into the South Sulphur River. The community was named for her. The Granny's Neck school, established after the Civil War, had one teacher and enrolled thirty-two pupils in 1905. The school later moved to Pecan Grove. Early in the 1870s the bridge washed out, and the state built a new crossing named for the tollkeeper, G. W. Harper. After the building costs were paid, the tollbooth closed, and Delta and Hopkins counties maintained the bridge. It remained important to freight haulers during the 1920s and 1930s, but as agriculture became less important so did the road, and residents moved out of the area. Maps still identified the crossing in 1964, but by 1984 the road was no longer in use.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/grannys-neck-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Granny's Neck, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/grannys-neck-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":67,"twn_name":"Greenwood","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":90,"twn_name":"Habern's Chapel","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Price<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Habern's Chapel<\/b>, more commonly known as Price<\/twn>, is a small community in central Delta County two miles northwest of Cooper. It is located on Farm Road 1530 and a dirt road just west of Big Creek. Little is known about early settlement, but the area was inhabited by 1905, when Price School reported forty-one White students and one instructor. Early teachers included Pearl Haddock, Al O. Wright, and Frank Bean. On March 8, 1910, Habern's Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church was deeded property in the vicinity. In 1931 Price Baptist Church sent a delegate to a meeting of the Delta County Baptist Association. By 1936 the community had the school, a church, and a cluster of dwellings at the junction of four dirt roads. The following year the settlement had two stores and a population of forty. Price School was absorbed into the Cooper system in 1949. Maps for 1964 identified a few scattered dwellings on Farm Road 1530 and a dirt road at the site. The community still appeared on maps in 1984.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/price-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Price, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/price-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":91,"twn_name":"Harper's Crossing","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Granny's Neck<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Harper's Crossing<\/b>, commonly known as Granny's Neck<\/twn>, but also known as Pecan Grove<\/i> and Harper's Crossing<\/i>, was located about five miles southeast of Cooper west of State Highway 154 where the Bonham-Jefferson Road crossed the South Sulphur River in south central Delta County. The area was settled in the 1840s. Benjamin DeSpain, a settler from Tennessee, built a toll bridge of oak and bois d'arc at the highest ridge of land at the South Sulphur crossing in 1846. The bridge connected the two sides of the river both socially and economically as the Bonham-Jefferson Road became an important artery of commerce. In the early 1870s a flood destroyed the DeSpain Bridge, and in 1873 George Washington Harper was authorized to construct another toll bridge. The spot became known as Harper's Crossing for more than a century. In 1883 Harper sold his toll bridge to Hopkins and Delta counties, and it was jointly maintained from then on.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nIn the latter half of the 1800s, a widow named Mary Sinclair, reportedly lived on the narrow ridge of land that rose between Doctors Creek and the South Sulphur River north of the crossing. Local tradition holds that farmers called this peninsula \"Granny's Neck\" after \"Granny\" Sinclair. A small community developed around a store and Granny's Neck School. Early residents included the Talley family. Farming remained an important industry in the region throughout the first half of the twentieth century. By the 1930s, however, the school and community were renamed Pecan Grove, though most locals still referred to the area as Granny's Neck. Pecan Grove School closed in 1949 when it was consolidated into the Cooper Independent School District. After World War II agriculture declined in the county, and some of the rural population moved away. The construction of better highways and farm-to-market roads in the county diminished the geographic importance of Harper's Crossing, though the bridge remained open into the 1970s. On January 10, 1971, the bridge received a Texas Historical Marker. With the completion of Cooper Lake in 1991, the site of Pecan Grove was forever flooded. The Granny's Neck Shelter Area in Doctors Creek Unit at Cooper Lake State Park honors the memory of the rural community.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pecan-grove-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Laurie E. Jasinski, “Pecan Grove, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pecan-grove-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":18,"twn_name":"Hickory Grove","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.370388","twn_lon":"-95.627735","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Hickory Grove<\/b>, on State Highway 154 and a dirt road three miles east of Cooper in central Delta County, is bordered on the west by a branch of Big Creek and on the east by Boyd Branch. The area was settled by 1875 when the Hickory Grove school opened; early teachers included J. N. Cornwall and \"Dad Shannon.\" By 1931 local residents had established the Hickory Grove Baptist Church and sent a delegate to a meeting of the Delta County Baptist Association. The 1936 county highway map identified the settlement as a school and a cluster of dwellings. In 1949 the Hickory Grove school was consolidated with the Cooper school system. The church at Hickory Grove later closed, and a 1964 map showed only the Hickory Grove cemetery at the site. The community appeared on the 1984 county highway map.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/hickory-grove-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Hickory Grove, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/hickory-grove-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":68,"twn_name":"Hobbs","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Hobbs<\/b>, more commonly known as Amy<\/twn>, was on the East Fork of Big Creek three miles north of Cooper in central Delta County. The site, located on the A. Askey survey, was settled early in the 1800s. The Amy school opened sometime around 1890; Jim Smith was one of the first instructors. In 1894 Robert Andrew Nicholson began a postal service, and the settlement was officially named Amy, but only after the postal department rejected the name Hobbs. The school was the center of the community. Records for 1904 listed seventy-six students and one teacher. The following year the post office was closed, and the area began to decline. In 1929 the school merged with Mulberry to form Clark School. By 1936 Amy was no longer identified on maps, but in 1939 it reported one business and twenty-five residents. In 1952 the store had closed, but twenty-five residents remained in the area. In 1964 a few scattered dwellings marked the old community site.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/amy-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Amy, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/amy-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":92,"twn_name":"Hog Wallow","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Crossroads<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Hog Wallow<\/b>, more commonly known as Crossroads<\/twn>, but also known at various times as Union<\/i>, and Clem<\/i>, is a small black community at the intersection of Farm roads 2949 and 128, four miles northwest of Enloe in northwestern Delta County. It is bordered to the southwest by the East Fork of Big Creek. The Crossroads school opened as Hog Wallow School in 1895. In 1903 Emmett C. Norwood opened a post office and called the settlement Clem, in honor of a prominent county family. The postal service ended after four years, and residents soon began to call the community Crossroads for its location. Crossroads appeared on maps as an unidentified community in 1936. It had a large school, one business, and a cluster of dwellings at the intersection of Farm Road 128 and a dirt road. By 1960 the school had been absorbed by the Cooper Independent School District. In 1964 the community's population was twenty-five. Crossroads still appeared on maps in 1984 and had ten inhabitants in 1990 and in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/crossroads-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Crossroads, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/crossroads-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":69,"twn_name":"Honest","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"_master_honest.jpg","twn_caption":"Photo courtesy of Patricia Blundell.","twn_text":"

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Honest<\/b>, more commonly known as Underwood<\/i>, was a farming community on the East Fork of Jernigan Creek five miles south of Pecan Gap and just east of Jot 'Em Down in western Delta County. The area was settled by 1900, when the Honest post office was established there. The name came from local resident Saint Thompson, who took it from a tin of Honest Snuff. The Honest community failed to prosper, and in 1905 its post office was closed. By 1915 the property had become part of the Underwood Farm, a large tenant-farming operation (see FARM TENANCY). That year the Underwood School, one of the last organized in the county, was established for the tenants' children. The community was not shown on the 1936 county highway map, and the school was consolidated into the Pecan Gap district in 1949.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/underwood-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Underwood, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/underwood-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":70,"twn_name":"Hooten Town","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"Link to Klondike<\/twn>","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":19,"twn_name":"Horton","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.262334","twn_lon":"-95.820796","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":40,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Horton<\/b> is at the intersection of Farm roads 71 and 1531, between the South and Middle Sulphur rivers six miles southwest of Klondike in southwestern Delta County. The area was settled by 1867, when the Horton School was established, but the town did not develop substantially until after 1895, when the Texas-Midland Railroad built a line to Cooper, and Horton became a railroad stop. Its post office was granted in 1900 with Richard L. Horton as postmaster. Despite its location on the railroad, Horton never became a large town, and other rail stops, such as Klondike and Cooper, surpassed it to become the local trade centers. In 1905 Horton's post office was discontinued, and its school became the center of community activity. The Midland line became part of the Southern Pacific system in 1928. The 1936 county highway map identified Horton as one business, two churches, a cemetery, and scattered dwellings. The community reported a population of seventy-five in 1939 and again after World War II; mail was delivered from nearby Commerce. A 1964 map showed Horton as a small church, a cemetery, and five houses. The Horton school had become part of the Cooper Independent School District. The 1984 county highway map showed a business, the church, and the cemetery at Horton. The community reported a population of twenty-five in 1990.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/horton-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Horton, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 04, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/horton-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":93,"twn_name":"Jackson's Chapel","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Simmons<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Jackson's Chapel<\/b>, more commonly known as Simmons<\/twn>, but also known as Rocky Point<\/i>, was a mile east of Ben Franklin and south of the North Sulphur River on a dirt road just off Farm Road 128 in northwestern Delta County. The area was settled in the early 1840s, and the Simmons School soon became the center of local activities. Early teachers included D. R. Black and a Professor Hall. In 1886 the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway built track through the area just north of Ben Franklin, which became a stop on the line. The Simmons school had thirty-three students and one teacher in 1905. Simmons was not labeled on the 1936 county highway map, but the school, a cemetery, and a cluster of dwellings remained in the vicinity. A 1964 map identified the Simmons cemetery. By 1970 local children attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. The cemetery was still designated on a 1984 map.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/simmons-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Simmons, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/simmons-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":20,"twn_name":"Jernigan","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Jerrigan<\/b>, more commonly known as Needmore<\/twn>, but also known as Pecan<\/i>, Pecan Branch<\/i>, and Eureka<\/i>, is a small farming community at the intersection of Farm Road 3132 and a dirt road, between Barnett Creek and the West Fork of Jernigan Creek 1½ miles southeast of Yowell in southwestern Delta County. The area was inhabited during the Republic of Texas era, and in 1850 local residents organized the Jernigan Baptist Church under the leadership of pastor Will Cummings. In 1873 a post office called Pecan (for the local trees) opened, with John W. Pratt as postmaster. By 1882 D. P. Holland had constructed a gristmill, and the population of the community was reported as 100. The post office name was changed to Needmore in 1886. By 1890 the town had Pratt's general store, a blacksmith, a large cotton gin, the office of physician J. M. Logsdon, three gristmills, and three carpenters. By 1892 Logsdon was running the post office, and a municipal government had been established. The school district had been formed as Eureka, and in 1893 the Baptist congregation, which had lost its church in a storm, began meeting in the school building.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nWhen the Texas Midland Railroad built through Delta County in 1895, it bypassed Needmore, which led to the town's decline. The school reported thirty White students and two teachers in 1906, and the next year the post office was discontinued. By 1900 the community population had decreased to fifty. The fellowship moved out of the schoolhouse in 1918 and into a new religious hall. The 1936 county highway map identified Needmore as a church, a school, and a cluster of dwellings at the intersection of two dirt roads. In 1949 the school was absorbed into the West Delta district. Only the church and a few scattered homes remained in 1964, and by 1970 local children attended classes in the Cooper Independent School District. The community was still shown on the 1984 county highway map.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/needmore-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Needmore, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/needmore-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":94,"twn_name":"Jim Chapman Lake","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Jim Chapman Lake<\/b>, more commonly known as Cooper Lake<\/i> is on the South Sulphur River on the border of Delta and Hopkins counties approximately three miles south of Cooper and twelve miles northwest of Sulphur Springs. Area residents, led by local landowners Grover Pickering and Quentin Miller, first proposed the construction of a reservoir for the purposes of flood control and water storage in the late 1930s. In 1948 Congressman Wright Patman requested a feasibility study for a dam and reservoir on the South Sulphur River, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers published a favorable report in 1950. In the early 1950s the cities of Sulphur Springs and Commerce, along with Delta County, signed on with the project, and the Cooper Dam bill was passed and signed in 1955.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nThe reservoir project hit the first of a series of stumbling blocks in 1957, when the Corps of Engineers announced that the damsite would need to be moved six miles downstream. Throughout the 1960s construction was delayed as more interests—the North Texas Municipal Water District and the City of Irving—came to the bargaining table, and various factions argued over water storage rights, pollution control measures, allocations of water storage permits, and lake capacities. The contract for Cooper Dam and Reservoir was finally signed on March 29, 1968, and land acquisition which had begun in the early 1960s resumed. The project, however, suffered another setback in 1971 when the Texas Committee on Natural Resources, a non-profit trust, filed suit against the Corps of Engineers for failing to file an environmental impact statement. Government agencies debated issues of environmental studies and mitigation for the next thirteen years, until 1984, when an appeals court lifted an injunction on construction.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nLuhr Brothers of Columbia, Illinois, began construction of an earthfill dam in 1987 and fulfilled the $41.3 million contract in 1991. Formal dedication occurred on September 28, 1991. The earthfill dam is 28,070 feet long with a maximum height of seventy-nine feet. The reservoir, also named Jim Chapman Lake<\/i> after a local congressman, covers more than 22,000 acres and carries a maximum capacity of 441,200 acre-feet. Cooper Lake State Park, located on both the northern and southern shores of the lake, offers recreational opportunities. More than 9,000 additional acres bordering the lake serve as a wildlife management area.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cooper-lake * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Laurie E. Jasinski, “Cooper Lake,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/cooper-lake.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":21,"twn_name":"Jot 'Em Down","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.382774","twn_lon":"-95.858336","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":10,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Jot 'Em Down<\/b>, also known as Mohegan<\/i>, Muddig Prairie<\/i>, and Bagley<\/i>, is at the intersection of Farm Roads 904 and 1532, in extreme western Delta County. The area was part of the James H. Larabee survey and was occupied by 1885, when the Bagley School opened. In 1905 the school enrolled forty-six students and employed one teacher. Bagley was shown on the 1936 county highway map as an unidentified settlement of one business and scattered dwellings at a site on dirt roads between the forks of Jernigan Creek. That year Dion McDonald built a new store, and shortly thereafter the Jot 'Em Down Gin Corporation, named for Lum and Abner's fictional radio store, was organized. The state highway department later used Jot 'Em Down as the community name for maps. In 1949 the Bagley school was consolidated with the Pecan Gap district. A 1964 map showed six farms at Jot 'Em Down. By 1970 local children attended school in the Fannindel Independent School District in Fannin County. The community was still shown on the 1984 county highway map, though no businesses were indicated. Jot 'Em Down in 1990 reported a population of ten. The population remained the same in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/jot-em-down-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Jot 'Em Down, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/jot-em-down-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":71,"twn_name":"Kate","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Klondike<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Kate<\/b>, more commonly known as Klondike<\/twn>, but also known as Pleasant Grove<\/i>, Old Pleasant Grove<\/i>, and New Prospect<\/i>, is at the junction of Farm Roads 1528 and 2890, three miles southwest of Cooper in southwestern Delta County. The area was settled as early as 1852, when John Hunt donated the land for Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Beginning in the 1860s a Methodist congregation and school met in the same building at the site. In 1895 the Texas-Midland Railroad built a line through Pleasant Grove to Cooper, the county seat, making the settlement a stop on the railroad. In August 1897 there were seventy-five inhabitants in the community. Four of these organized the New Prospect Baptist Church and two months later changed its name to Klondike Baptist Church of Christ. The Methodists allowed the new Baptist fellowship to share the school building with them. That same year Joel Jefferson Hunt applied for a postal franchise with the name Klondike, in honor of the Canadian Klondike, site of the gold rush. In 1901 the Baptists built a new building, and by 1904 the community had a population of 151. The following year the Klondike school district had a school for forty-nine Black children and one teacher and a school for 134 White students and three teachers. In 1914 the town had a population of 400, three doctors, and businesses that included a telegraph office, a telephone exchange, a blacksmith shop, a hardware store, a drugstore, three general stores, and a dry goods store. J. J. Hunt served as president of First State Bank, which had a capital of $20,000. The most important enterprise was cotton shipment, and there were two large cotton gins.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nKlondike remained an active shipping point throughout the following decade; in 1929 its residents numbered 350. But when the Great Depression ended the prosperity of the cotton years, people drifted away from the surrounding farm country. By 1933 the population of Klondike was 154. Maps of 1936 showed two churches and one cemetery in the community. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s Klondike had six businesses and 150 inhabitants. When the school burned in 1945, the Klondike district was merged with the Shiloh system to form the West Delta school district. Maps of 1964 indicated four churches, Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Klondike Cemetery, and fifty dwellings at the site. By 1970 local children attended school in the Cooper Independent School District, and a community center had been completed by 1976. Maps for 1984 showed three churches, two cemeteries, the post office, and two businesses at Klondike. In 2000 the town had 135 residents and twelve businesses.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/klondike-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Klondike, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/klondike-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":22,"twn_name":"Kensing","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.406062","twn_lon":"-95.431473","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":30,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Kensing<\/b> is on Farm Road 895 six miles east of Charleston in extreme eastern Delta County. It was established early in the 1900s around the Dee Flanniken (Flannagan) lumber mill, in the richly wooded delta of the Old and the South Sulphur rivers. The town name combines the last syllables of Flanniken and Sansing, family names of early settlers. A Kensing school was established in 1902. Most settlers moved out of the area once the lumber was depleted and the mill shut down. In 1933 there were only ten inhabitants and one business. Maps for 1936 showed a church, a school, and a cluster of twenty dwellings at the intersection of two dirt roads. In 1945 Kensing reported twenty-five residents. The school was still open in 1951 but had been closed by 1963, when the community had a business and a few scattered farms. In 1970 local children were attending school in the Cooper Independent School District. Kensing appeared on maps of 1984 as a church and cemetery. In 2000 the population was thirty-five.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/kensing-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Kensing, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/kensing-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":23,"twn_name":"Klondike","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.329855","twn_lon":"-95.758362","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":175,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Klondike<\/b>, also known as Pleasant Grove<\/i>, Old Pleasant Grove<\/i>, New Prospect<\/i>, and Kate<\/i>, is at the junction of Farm Roads 1528 and 2890, three miles southwest of Cooper in southwestern Delta County. The area was settled as early as 1852, when John Hunt donated the land for Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Beginning in the 1860s a Methodist congregation and school met in the same building at the site. In 1895 the Texas-Midland Railroad built a line through Pleasant Grove to Cooper, the county seat, making the settlement a stop on the railroad. In August 1897 there were seventy-five inhabitants in the community. Four of these organized the New Prospect Baptist Church and two months later changed its name to Klondike Baptist Church of Christ. The Methodists allowed the new Baptist fellowship to share the school building with them. That same year Joel Jefferson Hunt applied for a postal franchise with the name Klondike, in honor of the Canadian Klondike, site of the gold rush. In 1901 the Baptists built a new building, and by 1904 the community had a population of 151. The following year the Klondike school district had a school for forty-nine Black children and one teacher and a school for 134 White students and three teachers. In 1914 the town had a population of 400, three doctors, and businesses that included a telegraph office, a telephone exchange, a blacksmith shop, a hardware store, a drugstore, three general stores, and a dry goods store. J. J. Hunt served as president of First State Bank, which had a capital of $20,000. The most important enterprise was cotton shipment, and there were two large cotton gins.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nKlondike remained an active shipping point throughout the following decade; in 1929 its residents numbered 350. But when the Great Depression ended the prosperity of the cotton years, people drifted away from the surrounding farm country. By 1933 the population of Klondike was 154. Maps of 1936 showed two churches and one cemetery in the community. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s Klondike had six businesses and 150 inhabitants. When the school burned in 1945, the Klondike district was merged with the Shiloh system to form the West Delta school district. Maps of 1964 indicated four churches, Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Klondike Cemetery, and fifty dwellings at the site. By 1970 local children attended school in the Cooper Independent School District, and a community center had been completed by 1976. Maps for 1984 showed three churches, two cemeteries, the post office, and two businesses at Klondike. In 2000 the town had 135 residents and twelve businesses.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/klondike-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Klondike, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/klondike-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":24,"twn_name":"Lake Creek","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.447437","twn_lon":"-95.588184","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":55,"twn_zipcode":75450,"twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Lake Creek<\/b> is on Lake Creek at the intersection of Farm Roads 198 and 1335, six miles northeast of Cooper in north central Delta County. The area, originally part of the George W. Cox survey, was settled as early as March 1848, when the original post office opened under the name Odd's Creek with John Wood as postmaster. The facility closed after six months. After the Civil War more settlers arrived to farm the rich land along the creek. These included John W. and Sarah Ann Wilson, who arrived late in the 1860s. Wilson was a Methodist circuit rider and cotton farmer, who soon built one of the first gins in Delta County. In 1873 Thomas Wilson Stegall, a Baptist minister and Confederate veteran, constructed a blacksmith shop, around which the community developed. The post office was reopened under the name Lake Creek in 1885, and by 1888 the mail was delivered daily. That year postmaster W. C. Yeager reported his dry goods and grocery store, a general store, one blacksmith shop, a corn mill and gin, a hardware store, a jeweler, and two grocers. W. H. Rase was justice of the peace, and W. B. Chambers was constable. The town had a population of 200, Methodist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, and First Christian churches, and two doctors. L. M. Miller was principal of the local school, Evergreen Academy<\/sch>.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nIn 1890 the population had decreased to 100, and many businesses had closed. Postmaster William H. Sandridge, who owned a candy store and a blacksmith shop, delivered the mail three times a week. Other businesses included a gristmill and a grocery and dry goods store. S. T. Johnson served as justice of the peace. Cotton remained the most lucrative crop, and the town supported two large gins. Farmers who had embraced the Populist movement (see PEOPLE'S PARTY) formed a cooperative that opened the Lake Creek Cooperative Association General Store.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nIn 1892 Lake Creek had 120 inhabitants and a combination general store and pharmacy, a watch repairman, a flour mill and cotton gin, two dry goods stores, and two doctors. In 1904 residents numbered 139. The three-teacher school enrolled 112 students the following year. Soon thereafter, the Lake Creek<\/sch> School District was organized; it later absorbed all of the Andersonville<\/sch> and part of the Darwin<\/sch> school systems. By 1912 the school was the center of community activities. Though the ravages of the boll weevil had reduced businesses to one, rebuilding was under way. In 1914 postmaster John H. Devaney reported 150 residents, including two blacksmiths, one wagonmaker, and two doctors. The largest businesses were Devaney Brothers Druggists and Oscar Anderson Cotton Gin, and the community also had new telephone connections. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s the population of Lake Creek<\/i> remained at 200. Several businesses also managed to survive hard times. Maps for 1936 showed a school, two churches, two cemeteries, and five businesses, on bituminous and gravel roads, at the site.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nDuring the 1950s the cotton industry became even less profitable, and by 1964 the population of Lake Creek<\/i> had declined to 100; that year the town had two churches, two cemeteries, three businesses, and a cluster of thirty dwellings at the intersection of Farm Road 198 and a dirt road. In 1970 local children attended school in the Cooper Independent School District<\/i>. By 1976 a community center had been built; maps for 1984 showed two churches, the post office, three businesses, and a nearby factory. In 1990 Lake Creek<\/i> had sixty inhabitants and one business. The population remained the same in 2000 with eight businesses.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lake-creek-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Lake Creek, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lake-creek-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":25,"twn_name":"Liberty Grove","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.331221","twn_lon":"-95.697181","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Liberty Grove<\/b> was a small farming community at the junction of Farm Road 1880 and a dirt thoroughfare, on Doctors Creek and the South Sulphur River, south of Cooper in south central Delta County. The area was originally part of the E. R. Crowder Survey. Pioneers had arrived by 1854, when the Liberty Grove School was organized. Early settler Charles Nidever donated land for a cemetery in 1867. By 1905 the school enrolled forty-four White students and employed two teachers. In 1936 the community consisted of the school and the cemetery, surrounded by a scattered collection of farms. Cooper Independent School District absorbed the school in the late 1940s. Liberty Grove was shown on a 1964 map as a few scattered homes, and in 1966 its residents numbered twenty-five.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nThe 1984 county highway map showed a sawmill, a grain elevator, and the Liberty Grove Cemetery at the site. The cemetery was still in use in 1988. In 1989 the construction of the Cooper Dam on the South Sulphur River necessitated the relocation of Liberty Grove Cemetery to a site on Farm Road 1880 south of Cooper. With impoundment in 1991, the site of the community was inundated by the waters of Cooper Lake. Liberty Grove Camping Area in the nearby Doctors Creek Unit of Cooper Lake State Park commemorates the community.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/liberty-grove-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Liberty Grove, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/liberty-grove-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":95,"twn_name":"Lone Elm","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Pacio<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Lone Elm<\/b>, more commonly known as Pacio<\/twn>, but also known as Cuba<\/i>, and Mote's Mill<\/i>, is on Farm Road 198 and a dirt thoroughfare just south of the Old River Channel and north of Lake Creek, about three miles north of Charleston in northwestern Delta County. The area was settled by 1890, when the Lone Elm School opened. In 1892 James Porter Mote established the Pacio post office, misspelling the Spanish word patio. The post office was discontinued in 1905. The name of the community's school changed to Pacio in 1926, and in 1936 the community had the school, a church, two businesses, and a cluster of dwellings. In 1943 the local school system was consolidated into the East Delta district. By 1964 Pacio had the church and a few scattered dwellings, and in 1970 local children attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. A 1984 county highway map showed Pacio with two businesses. The community had fifteen inhabitants in 1990 and 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pacio-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Pacio, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pacio-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":26,"twn_name":"Lone Star","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.377729","twn_lon":"-95.842433","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"The GPS location of Lone Star is based on the description in the below text.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Lone Star<\/b>, also known as Barton<\/i> and Volney<\/i>, was on the old Bonham and Jefferson road a mile east of Jot 'Em Down in western Delta County. The area was settled by 1878, when the Lone Star school was established. In 1886 a post office opened as Volney, with Ellen S. Billingsley as postmistress; service was discontinued in 1888. The railroad failed to pass through Lone Star, and the settlement declined as larger rail towns, such as nearby Pecan Gap, prospered. By 1936 Lone Star was no longer identified on maps, though at the site were a school, a church, and one business. The school was consolidated with the Pecan Gap system in 1949, and in 1964 only a few scattered farms remained in the area.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lone-star-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Lone Star, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lone-star-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":72,"twn_name":"Long Ridge","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Charleston<\/twn> town record for the general GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Long Ridge<\/b> was located in the general area of Charleston<\/twn>. The Handbook of Texas references that the Long Ridge school was consolidated into the Charleston school system about 1910. Other than the school there are no specific references about the town of Long Ridge.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/charleston-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Charleston, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/charleston-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":27,"twn_name":"Long Taw","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Long Taw<\/b>, also known as Good's Chapel<\/i>, was just southwest of Cooper on the Old Bonham and Jefferson Road in central Delta County. The settlement developed in the 1850s when freighters hauling cotton, vegetables, and livestock to market began to stop there for water. The name was supposedly given by these drivers because the distance from water at the South Sulphur River crossing to the supply there was a long tow (\"long taw\"). In 1883 local residents established a school that enrolled thirty-seven students and employed one teacher in 1905. When the Texas Midland Railroad built a line through the area in 1895, many people moved to nearby Cooper, which had become an important railroad town. By 1936 Long Taw no longer appeared on maps. The school remained in the vicinity, but it was consolidated into the Cooper district in 1949. Maps for 1964 showed a few scattered dwellings on the site of Long Taw.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/long-taw-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Long Taw, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/long-taw-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":46,"twn_name":"Milam","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":73,"twn_name":"Mohegan","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Jot 'Em Down<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Mohegan<\/b>, more commonly known as Jot 'Em Down<\/twn>, but also known as Muddig Prairie<\/i>, and Bagley<\/i>, is at the intersection of Farm Roads 904 and 1532, in extreme western Delta County. The area was part of the James H. Larabee survey and was occupied by 1885, when the Bagley School opened. In 1905 the school enrolled forty-six students and employed one teacher. Bagley was shown on the 1936 county highway map as an unidentified settlement of one business and scattered dwellings at a site on dirt roads between the forks of Jernigan Creek. That year Dion McDonald built a new store, and shortly thereafter the Jot 'Em Down Gin Corporation, named for Lum and Abner's fictional radio store, was organized. The state highway department later used Jot 'Em Down as the community name for maps. In 1949 the Bagley school was consolidated with the Pecan Gap district. A 1964 map showed six farms at Jot 'Em Down. By 1970 local children attended school in the Fannindel Independent School District in Fannin County. The community was still shown on the 1984 county highway map, though no businesses were indicated. Jot 'Em Down in 1990 reported a population of ten. The population remained the same in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/jot-em-down-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Jot 'Em Down, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/jot-em-down-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":96,"twn_name":"Mote's Mill","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Pacio<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Mote's Mill<\/b>, more commonly known as Pacio<\/twn>, but also known as Lone Elm<\/i> and Cuba<\/i>, is on Farm Road 198 and a dirt thoroughfare just south of the Old River Channel and north of Lake Creek, about three miles north of Charleston in northwestern Delta County. The area was settled by 1890, when the Lone Elm School opened. In 1892 James Porter Mote established the Pacio post office, misspelling the Spanish word patio. The post office was discontinued in 1905. The name of the community's school changed to Pacio in 1926, and in 1936 the community had the school, a church, two businesses, and a cluster of dwellings. In 1943 the local school system was consolidated into the East Delta district. By 1964 Pacio had the church and a few scattered dwellings, and in 1970 local children attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. A 1984 county highway map showed Pacio with two businesses. The community had fifteen inhabitants in 1990 and 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pacio-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Pacio, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pacio-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":28,"twn_name":"Mount Joy","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.475495","twn_lon":"-95.621290","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Mount Joy<\/b> is a small church community at the intersection of Farm Road 1742 and a dirt road in extreme north central Delta County. Jeremiah and Nancy DeWitt settled in the area in 1854, when they arrived from Virginia with their two sons. Mrs. Samuel Buford, another Virginia emigrant, named the settlement Mount Joy to express her relief at finally arriving safely at the new home. The Bufords established a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1874, and their son Leroy opened a mercantile store. In 1876 the first post office opened, with Matthew S. Keen as postmaster. In 1884 the settlement of 100 supported three steam cotton gins, a gristmill, a shingle factory, three general stores, a dry goods establishment, three smithies, and a woodwork shop. Stagecoaches left daily for Cooper, the county seat, at a cost of two dollars for each passenger. Mail arrived every day, probably on the stage. W. R. Brigman was postmaster that year.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nBy this time Mount Joy was becoming an important farming center; Leroy DeWitt, a local farmer, became an active leader in the Grange movement and the Farmers' Alliance. Conflict between farmers and cattlemen in the area climaxed early in the 1880s with wirecutting disputes. Since such feuds rendered the neighborhood dangerous, and therefore unattractive, by 1888 the number of residents had decreased to fifty. A. M. Skeen ran the general store, and mail still arrived daily, but many businesses had closed. Once the disputes were settled, prosperity returned to north Delta County. By 1890 200 people lived in Mount Joy. Postal officer L. B. Carrington reported that the mail arrived on the stagecoach three times a week. The major enterprises were two gin and gristmill combinations. Local businessmen included a carpenter and Manning and Manning, Blacksmith and Wagonmakers. Farmers had formed the Mount Joy Cooperative Association, and Carrington served as manager of the general store that the organization had opened. The following year the Mount Joy Baptist Church sent representatives to the Delta County Baptist Association meeting. By 1897 a Mount Joy school had been established. That year forty-seven students attended under the tutelage of two teachers. Records for 1905 listed forty-seven pupils and one instructor.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nThe advent of the railroad, however, had brought about new and larger trade centers, and Mount Joy was no longer an important town. The post office was discontinued in 1907. Maps for 1936 identified the school, a church and cemetery, and thirty dwellings on dirt roads. In 1949 the Mount Joy school system was absorbed into the Enloe district. Maps for 1964 showed a gravel pit, a church, the Mount Joy Cemetery, and a few homes at the townsite. Students attended the Cooper Independent School District by 1970. Mount Joy still appeared on maps in 1984 as a church and cemetery.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/mount-joy-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Mount Joy, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/mount-joy-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":97,"twn_name":"Muddig Prairie","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Jot 'Em Down<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Muddig Prairie<\/b>, more commonly known as Jot 'Em Down<\/twn>, but also known as Mohegan<\/i>, and Bagley<\/i>, is at the intersection of Farm Roads 904 and 1532, in extreme western Delta County. The area was part of the James H. Larabee survey and was occupied by 1885, when the Bagley School opened. In 1905 the school enrolled forty-six students and employed one teacher. Bagley was shown on the 1936 county highway map as an unidentified settlement of one business and scattered dwellings at a site on dirt roads between the forks of Jernigan Creek. That year Dion McDonald built a new store, and shortly thereafter the Jot 'Em Down Gin Corporation, named for Lum and Abner's fictional radio store, was organized. The state highway department later used Jot 'Em Down as the community name for maps. In 1949 the Bagley school was consolidated with the Pecan Gap district. A 1964 map showed six farms at Jot 'Em Down. By 1970 local children attended school in the Fannindel Independent School District in Fannin County. The community was still shown on the 1984 county highway map, though no businesses were indicated. Jot 'Em Down in 1990 reported a population of ten. The population remained the same in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/jot-em-down-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Jot 'Em Down, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/jot-em-down-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":74,"twn_name":"Mulberry","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Amy<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Mulberry<\/b> was located in the general area of the town of Amy<\/twn>. The Handbook of Texas references that in 1929 the Mulberry school merged with the Amy School<\/sch> to form the Clark<\/sch> district. Other than for the school there are no other references about the town of Mulberry<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/amy-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Amy, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 05, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/amy-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":29,"twn_name":"Needmore","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Jernigan<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Needmore<\/b>, also known as Jernigan<\/twn>, Pecan<\/i>, Pecan Branch<\/i>, and Eureka<\/i>, is a small farming community at the intersection of Farm Road 3132 and a dirt road, between Barnett Creek and the West Fork of Jernigan Creek 1½ miles southeast of Yowell in southwestern Delta County. The area was inhabited during the Republic of Texas era, and in 1850 local residents organized the Jernigan Baptist Church under the leadership of pastor Will Cummings. In 1873 a post office called Pecan (for the local trees) opened, with John W. Pratt as postmaster. By 1882 D. P. Holland had constructed a gristmill, and the population of the community was reported as 100. The post office name was changed to Needmore in 1886. By 1890 the town had Pratt's general store, a blacksmith, a large cotton gin, the office of physician J. M. Logsdon, three gristmills, and three carpenters. By 1892 Logsdon was running the post office, and a municipal government had been established. The school district had been formed as Eureka, and in 1893 the Baptist congregation, which had lost its church in a storm, began meeting in the school building.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nWhen the Texas Midland Railroad built through Delta County in 1895, it bypassed Needmore, which led to the town's decline. The school reported thirty White students and two teachers in 1906, and the next year the post office was discontinued. By 1900 the community population had decreased to fifty. The fellowship moved out of the schoolhouse in 1918 and into a new religious hall. The 1936 county highway map identified Needmore as a church, a school, and a cluster of dwellings at the intersection of two dirt roads. In 1949 the school was absorbed into the West Delta district. Only the church and a few scattered homes remained in 1964, and by 1970 local children attended classes in the Cooper Independent School District. The community was still shown on the 1984 county highway map.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/needmore-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Needmore, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/needmore-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":98,"twn_name":"New Prospect","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Klondike<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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New Prospect<\/b>, more commonly known as Klondike<\/twn>, but also known as Pleasant Grove<\/i>, Old Pleasant Grove<\/i>, and Kate<\/i>, is at the junction of Farm Roads 1528 and 2890, three miles southwest of Cooper in southwestern Delta County. The area was settled as early as 1852, when John Hunt donated the land for Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Beginning in the 1860s a Methodist congregation and school met in the same building at the site. In 1895 the Texas-Midland Railroad built a line through Pleasant Grove to Cooper, the county seat, making the settlement a stop on the railroad. In August 1897 there were seventy-five inhabitants in the community. Four of these organized the New Prospect Baptist Church and two months later changed its name to Klondike Baptist Church of Christ. The Methodists allowed the new Baptist fellowship to share the school building with them. That same year Joel Jefferson Hunt applied for a postal franchise with the name Klondike, in honor of the Canadian Klondike, site of the gold rush. In 1901 the Baptists built a new building, and by 1904 the community had a population of 151. The following year the Klondike school district had a school for forty-nine Black children and one teacher and a school for 134 White students and three teachers. In 1914 the town had a population of 400, three doctors, and businesses that included a telegraph office, a telephone exchange, a blacksmith shop, a hardware store, a drugstore, three general stores, and a dry goods store. J. J. Hunt served as president of First State Bank, which had a capital of $20,000. The most important enterprise was cotton shipment, and there were two large cotton gins.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nKlondike remained an active shipping point throughout the following decade; in 1929 its residents numbered 350. But when the Great Depression ended the prosperity of the cotton years, people drifted away from the surrounding farm country. By 1933 the population of Klondike was 154. Maps of 1936 showed two churches and one cemetery in the community. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s Klondike had six businesses and 150 inhabitants. When the school burned in 1945, the Klondike district was merged with the Shiloh system to form the West Delta school district. Maps of 1964 indicated four churches, Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Klondike Cemetery, and fifty dwellings at the site. By 1970 local children attended school in the Cooper Independent School District, and a community center had been completed by 1976. Maps for 1984 showed three churches, two cemeteries, the post office, and two businesses at Klondike. In 2000 the town had 135 residents and twelve businesses.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/klondike-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Klondike, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/klondike-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":101,"twn_name":"Odd's Creek","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Lake Creek<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Odd's Creek<\/b>, more commonly known as Lake Creek<\/twn> is on Lake Creek at the intersection of Farm Roads 198 and 1335, six miles northeast of Cooper in north central Delta County. The area, originally part of the George W. Cox survey, was settled as early as March 1848, when the original post office opened under the name Odd's Creek with John Wood as postmaster. The facility closed after six months. After the Civil War more settlers arrived to farm the rich land along the creek. These included John W. and Sarah Ann Wilson, who arrived late in the 1860s. Wilson was a Methodist circuit rider and cotton farmer, who soon built one of the first gins in Delta County. In 1873 Thomas Wilson Stegall, a Baptist minister and Confederate veteran, constructed a blacksmith shop, around which the community developed. The post office was reopened under the name Lake Creek in 1885, and by 1888 the mail was delivered daily. That year postmaster W. C. Yeager reported his dry goods and grocery store, a general store, one blacksmith shop, a corn mill and gin, a hardware store, a jeweler, and two grocers. W. H. Rase was justice of the peace, and W. B. Chambers was constable. The town had a population of 200, Methodist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, and First Christian churches, and two doctors. L. M. Miller was principal of the local school, Evergreen Academy.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nIn 1890 the population had decreased to 100, and many businesses had closed. Postmaster William H. Sandridge, who owned a candy store and a blacksmith shop, delivered the mail three times a week. Other businesses included a gristmill and a grocery and dry goods store. S. T. Johnson served as justice of the peace. Cotton remained the most lucrative crop, and the town supported two large gins. Farmers who had embraced the Populist movement (see PEOPLE'S PARTY) formed a cooperative that opened the Lake Creek Cooperative Association General Store.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nIn 1892 Lake Creek had 120 inhabitants and a combination general store and pharmacy, a watch repairman, a flour mill and cotton gin, two dry goods stores, and two doctors. In 1904 residents numbered 139. The three-teacher school enrolled 112 students the following year. Soon thereafter, the Lake Creek School District was organized; it later absorbed all of the Andersonville and part of the Darwin school systems. By 1912 the school was the center of community activities. Though the ravages of the boll weevil had reduced businesses to one, rebuilding was under way. In 1914 postmaster John H. Devaney reported 150 residents, including two blacksmiths, one wagonmaker, and two doctors. The largest businesses were Devaney Brothers Druggists and Oscar Anderson Cotton Gin, and the community also had new telephone connections. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s the population of Lake Creek remained at 200. Several businesses also managed to survive hard times. Maps for 1936 showed a school, two churches, two cemeteries, and five businesses, on bituminous and gravel roads, at the site.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nDuring the 1950s the cotton industry became even less profitable, and by 1964 the population of Lake Creek had declined to 100; that year the town had two churches, two cemeteries, three businesses, and a cluster of thirty dwellings at the intersection of Farm Road 198 and a dirt road. In 1970 local children attended school in the Cooper Independent School District. By 1976 a community center had been built; maps for 1984 showed two churches, the post office, three businesses, and a nearby factory. In 1990 Lake Creek had sixty inhabitants and one business. The population remained the same in 2000 with eight businesses.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lake-creek-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Lake Creek, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lake-creek-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":47,"twn_name":"Old Liberty","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":75,"twn_name":"Old Union","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"Klondike area","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":30,"twn_name":"Pacio","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.431676","twn_lon":"-95.540283","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":35,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Pacio<\/b>, also known as Lone Elm<\/i>, Cuba<\/i>, and Mote's Mill<\/i>, is on Farm Road 198 and a dirt thoroughfare just south of the Old River Channel and north of Lake Creek, about three miles north of Charleston in northwestern Delta County. The area was settled by 1890, when the Lone Elm School opened. In 1892 James Porter Mote established the Pacio post office, misspelling the Spanish word patio. The post office was discontinued in 1905. The name of the community's school changed to Pacio in 1926, and in 1936 the community had the school, a church, two businesses, and a cluster of dwellings. In 1943 the local school system was consolidated into the East Delta district. By 1964 Pacio had the church and a few scattered dwellings, and in 1970 local children attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. A 1984 county highway map showed Pacio with two businesses. The community had fifteen inhabitants in 1990 and 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pacio-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Pacio, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pacio-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":76,"twn_name":"Pecan","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Pecan<\/b>, more commonly known as Needmore<\/i>, but also known as Jernigan<\/i>, Pecan<\/i>, Pecan Branch<\/i>, and Eureka<\/i>, is a small farming community at the intersection of Farm Road 3132 and a dirt road, between Barnett Creek and the West Fork of Jernigan Creek 1½ miles southeast of Yowell in southwestern Delta County. The area was inhabited during the Republic of Texas era, and in 1850 local residents organized the Jernigan Baptist Church under the leadership of pastor Will Cummings. In 1873 a post office called Pecan (for the local trees) opened, with John W. Pratt as postmaster. By 1882 D. P. Holland had constructed a gristmill, and the population of the community was reported as 100. The post office name was changed to Needmore in 1886. By 1890 the town had Pratt's general store, a blacksmith, a large cotton gin, the office of physician J. M. Logsdon, three gristmills, and three carpenters. By 1892 Logsdon was running the post office, and a municipal government had been established. The school district had been formed as Eureka, and in 1893 the Baptist congregation, which had lost its church in a storm, began meeting in the school building.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nWhen the Texas Midland Railroad built through Delta County in 1895, it bypassed Needmore, which led to the town's decline. The school reported thirty White students and two teachers in 1906, and the next year the post office was discontinued. By 1900 the community population had decreased to fifty. The fellowship moved out of the schoolhouse in 1918 and into a new religious hall. The 1936 county highway map identified Needmore as a church, a school, and a cluster of dwellings at the intersection of two dirt roads. In 1949 the school was absorbed into the West Delta district. Only the church and a few scattered homes remained in 1964, and by 1970 local children attended classes in the Cooper Independent School District. The community was still shown on the 1984 county highway map.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/needmore-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Needmore, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/needmore-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":85,"twn_name":"Pecan Gap","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.438982","twn_lon":"-95.847257","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":181,"twn_zipcode":75469,"twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"_master_pecan_gap.jpg","twn_caption":"Photo courtesy of Peggy Durham.","twn_text":"

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Pecan Gap<\/b> is at the junction of Farm roads 64 and 128, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in extreme northwestern Delta County. The area, originally part of the Curtis Jernigan survey, was settled as early as 1884, when the Pecan Gap Baptist Church, named for a nearby grove, was organized under the leadership of a Pastor Ridling. The following year John R. and Charlotte Clem arrived from Arkansas; other early settlers included Bill Pickard, a Mr. Holcomb, the Hardy and Norton families, and \"Grandmother\" Garner. In 1888 the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway extended its tracks through the Clems' property and built the Pecan Gap depot. The town soon developed as a thriving cotton and trade center. George W. Merrill opened a post office, but John Clem, who had started a lumber mill and become the Baptist pastor, soon succeeded him as postmaster. That year he reported 500 residents in the community. Major businesses included the Birthright and Company gin, Carson Lumber Company, a drugstore, two groceries, two general stores, a hotel, a livery, and a saloon. Citizens also had access to the services of two doctors, a barber, two blacksmiths, and a telegraph office. Mrs. M. E. Miller taught music to local children, and Pecan Gap School, which offered both elementary and secondary classes, had been established by W. L. Mayo. The municipal government consisted of W. T. Edwards, justice of the peace, and W. P. Duvall, constable.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nBy 1890 mail arrived daily, and two new general stores and another grocery had opened. In 1892 postmaster G. D. Wood reported that he had become proprietor of a new general store. Other new businesses included Cockerell, Edwards and Company Drugs and Saloon and L. A. Campbell's saloon. Records for 1905 identified two schools, one for 134 White students and three teachers, the other for eighteen Black students and one teacher. By 1910 the population was 600 and the local lumber and cotton industries were successful. In 1929 the population was 500. Although the town had twenty-one businesses in 1933, the area had already been hard hit by the Great Depression, and many of the sawmills had closed. In 1936 Pecan Gap had 409 residents. In 1941 it still had twenty-one businesses. With the advent of World War II, many residents and businesses moved to more lucrative centers. In 1945 seventeen businesses remained, but by 1958 the number had declined to eleven. Maps for 1964 identified three businesses, two churches, and seventy dwellings; the population was 250. By 1970 the Fannindel Independent School District in Fannin County had absorbed the Pecan Gap system, and a community center had been completed. The town had 296 inhabitants and five businesses in 1989. In 1990 the population was 245. The population dropped to 214 in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pecan-gap-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Pecan Gap, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pecan-gap-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":32,"twn_name":"Pecan Grove","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Granny's Neck<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Pecan Grove<\/b>, commonly known as Granny's Neck<\/twn> or Harper's Crossing<\/i>, was located about five miles southeast of Cooper west of State Highway 154 where the Bonham-Jefferson Road crossed the South Sulphur River in south central Delta County. The area was settled in the 1840s. Benjamin DeSpain, a settler from Tennessee, built a toll bridge of oak and bois d'arc at the highest ridge of land at the South Sulphur crossing in 1846. The bridge connected the two sides of the river both socially and economically as the Bonham-Jefferson Road became an important artery of commerce. In the early 1870s a flood destroyed the DeSpain Bridge, and in 1873 George Washington Harper was authorized to construct another toll bridge. The spot became known as Harper's Crossing for more than a century. In 1883 Harper sold his toll bridge to Hopkins and Delta counties, and it was jointly maintained from then on.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nIn the latter half of the 1800s, a widow named Mary Sinclair, reportedly lived on the narrow ridge of land that rose between Doctors Creek and the South Sulphur River north of the crossing. Local tradition holds that farmers called this peninsula \"Granny's Neck\" after \"Granny\" Sinclair. A small community developed around a store and Granny's Neck School. Early residents included the Talley family. Farming remained an important industry in the region throughout the first half of the twentieth century. By the 1930s, however, the school and community were renamed Pecan Grove, though most locals still referred to the area as Granny's Neck. Pecan Grove School closed in 1949 when it was consolidated into the Cooper Independent School District. After World War II agriculture declined in the county, and some of the rural population moved away. The construction of better highways and farm-to-market roads in the county diminished the geographic importance of Harper's Crossing, though the bridge remained open into the 1970s. On January 10, 1971, the bridge received a Texas Historical Marker. With the completion of Cooper Lake in 1991, the site of Pecan Grove was forever flooded. The Granny's Neck Shelter Area in Doctors Creek Unit at Cooper Lake State Park honors the memory of the rural community.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pecan-grove-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Laurie E. Jasinski, “Pecan Grove, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/pecan-grove-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":48,"twn_name":"Perkins","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":77,"twn_name":"Pleasant Grove","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Klondike<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Pleasant Grove<\/b>, more commonly known as Klondike<\/twn>, but also known as Old Pleasant Grove<\/i>, New Prospect<\/i>, and Kate<\/i>, is at the junction of Farm Roads 1528 and 2890, three miles southwest of Cooper in southwestern Delta County. The area was settled as early as 1852, when John Hunt donated the land for Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Beginning in the 1860s a Methodist congregation and school met in the same building at the site. In 1895 the Texas-Midland Railroad built a line through Pleasant Grove to Cooper, the county seat, making the settlement a stop on the railroad. In August 1897 there were seventy-five inhabitants in the community. Four of these organized the New Prospect Baptist Church and two months later changed its name to Klondike Baptist Church of Christ. The Methodists allowed the new Baptist fellowship to share the school building with them. That same year Joel Jefferson Hunt applied for a postal franchise with the name Klondike, in honor of the Canadian Klondike, site of the gold rush. In 1901 the Baptists built a new building, and by 1904 the community had a population of 151. The following year the Klondike school district had a school for forty-nine Black children and one teacher and a school for 134 White students and three teachers. In 1914 the town had a population of 400, three doctors, and businesses that included a telegraph office, a telephone exchange, a blacksmith shop, a hardware store, a drugstore, three general stores, and a dry goods store. J. J. Hunt served as president of First State Bank, which had a capital of $20,000. The most important enterprise was cotton shipment, and there were two large cotton gins.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nKlondike remained an active shipping point throughout the following decade; in 1929 its residents numbered 350. But when the Great Depression ended the prosperity of the cotton years, people drifted away from the surrounding farm country. By 1933 the population of Klondike was 154. Maps of 1936 showed two churches and one cemetery in the community. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s Klondike had six businesses and 150 inhabitants. When the school burned in 1945, the Klondike district was merged with the Shiloh system to form the West Delta school district. Maps of 1964 indicated four churches, Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Klondike Cemetery, and fifty dwellings at the site. By 1970 local children attended school in the Cooper Independent School District, and a community center had been completed by 1976. Maps for 1984 showed three churches, two cemeteries, the post office, and two businesses at Klondike. In 2000 the town had 135 residents and twelve businesses.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/klondike-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Klondike, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/klondike-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":78,"twn_name":"Possum Trot","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":33,"twn_name":"Post Oak","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.398165","twn_lon":"-95.603012","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Post Oak<\/b>, also known as Brushy Creek<\/i> and Brushy Mound<\/i>, is a small farming community in central Delta County four miles northeast of Cooper and four miles south of Lake Creek, between Post Oak and Brushy creeks at Farm Road 890 just east of State Highway 24. Little is known about early settlement, but the area was inhabited by 1850, when locals established Brushy Creek School, one of the oldest schools in the county. Early teachers included Mrs. Middleton, Mrs. Anderson, Clem Ratcliff, and Will Ward. By 1905 the school was called Post Oak. Records for that year listed sixty-eight White pupils and one instructor. The community never had a post office, and the school had closed by 1936, when Post Oak appeared on maps as two businesses and an unidentified collection of dwellings at the intersection of a paved road and dirt thoroughfares. In 1964 it had a few scattered homes, Brushy Creek Cemetery, a small lake, a golf course, and a clubhouse. In 1970 local children attended Cooper Independent School District. Post Oak still appeared on maps in 1984.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/post-oak-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Post Oak, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/post-oak-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":34,"twn_name":"Prattville","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.423998","twn_lon":"-95.589401","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"_master_prattville.jpg","twn_caption":"Prattville Cornet Band","twn_text":"

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Prattville<\/b> is on dirt roads 1½ miles south of the town of Lake Creek and just west of Post Oak Creek in central Delta County. The area was inhabited by 1881, when William B. Pratt opened the post office, which he named Prattville. By 1882 a community of some 100 citizens, mostly farmers, had developed around Pratt's General Store and the post office. The major businesses included several steam cotton gins, three gristmills, and a sawmill owned by Wilson and Company. The Perkins School, named for a local landowner, opened with C. C. Dunagan and J. A. Perkins holding classes for local children. By 1884 the mail was semiweekly, and there were several new cotton gins and gristmills, a livestock dealer, two general stores, two wagonmakers, and a blacksmith shop. At that time the fifty residents also had the services of a new doctor, several teachers, a lawyer, and the Reverend J. W. Wilson. Postal officer W. B. Pratt reported that mail arrived daily in 1888, when there was also a new distillery. By that year, however, many local businesses and cotton growers were moving to larger railroad towns like nearby Cooper and Lake Creek, and Prattville began to decline. Its major businesses in 1890 were two blacksmith shops, a gristmill and gin, and a general store. In 1936 Prattville had sixty residents, the school, a church, two factories, and one other business, but only one business was reported there by 1945. The Perkins School merged with the Cooper and East Delta districts in 1949. A 1964 map showed a few scattered farms near the townsite. By 1970 local students attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. Prattville was still shown on the 1984 county highway map.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/prattville-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Prattville, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/prattville-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":35,"twn_name":"Price","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.397053","twn_lon":"-95.729960","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Price<\/b>, also known as Habern's Chapel<\/i>, is a small community in central Delta County two miles northwest of Cooper. It is located on Farm Road 1530 and a dirt road just west of Big Creek. Little is known about early settlement, but the area was inhabited by 1905, when Price School reported forty-one White students and one instructor. Early teachers included Pearl Haddock, Al O. Wright, and Frank Bean. On March 8, 1910, Habern's Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church was deeded property in the vicinity. In 1931 Price Baptist Church sent a delegate to a meeting of the Delta County Baptist Association. By 1936 the community had the school, a church, and a cluster of dwellings at the junction of four dirt roads. The following year the settlement had two stores and a population of forty. Price School was absorbed into the Cooper system in 1949. Maps for 1964 identified a few scattered dwellings on Farm Road 1530 and a dirt road at the site. The community still appeared on maps in 1984.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/price-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Price, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/price-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":36,"twn_name":"Racetrack","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.419773","twn_lon":"-95.750640","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Racetrack<\/b> is a small farming community just east of Doctors Creek at the intersection of Farm roads 1530 and 1533, four miles southeast of Pecan Gap in western Delta County. The settlement developed early in the 1880s around a prairie racetrack, where horses ran on Sunday afternoons. The post office opened in 1888 with Louisa Jane Compton as postmaster. Mail arrived daily from Paris or Cooper, and the only business was the Lancing and McCollum General Store. In 1890 no businesses were reported there, and by 1904 the post office had been discontinued. By around 1904 a school had opened, however, and enrolled thirty-six White students under one teacher. In 1936 the community consisted of a school, a church, and a small cluster of dwellings at the intersection of two dirt roads. The school had closed by 1964, when Racetrack comprised a few scattered farms on Farm Road 1530 and a dirt thoroughfare. In 1970 local children attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. Racetrack was still shown on the 1984 county highway map.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/racetrack-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Racetrack, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/racetrack-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":79,"twn_name":"Rainey Town","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"Klondike","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":37,"twn_name":"Rattan","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.415386","twn_lon":"-95.781907","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":10,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Rattan<\/b> is at the intersection of Farm roads 1530 and 3388, between Doctors and Giles creeks three miles southeast of Pecan Gap in western Delta County. The area was inhabited as early as the 1820s, when a man named Blue built a pole hut, probably as a base from which to trade with the Indians. No community developed, however, until much later in the century. The Rattan post office opened in 1893 just south of the present community site and was named for Cooper postal officer Clarence V. Rattan, who had helped to establish it. McLee Parrish served as first postmaster, and the community at that time had a mill, a gin, and 350 residents. Two years later the Texas Midland Railroad completed a line through nearby Cooper, and many Rattan residents left for the new trade center. The Rattan post office was moved to its present site in 1896, but few additional settlers came to the small community. The Rattan School was established in 1900; by 1905 ninety-nine students were enrolled under two teachers. The post office was discontinued in 1906. In 1931 Rattan had one store, and in 1933 the community reported fifty residents. The 1936 county highway map showed a business, a cemetery, the school, and three churches at the site. Rattan had twenty inhabitants by 1950, and a 1964 map showed a church, a cemetery, and a few dwellings there. By 1970 local children attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District or in the Fannindel system in Fannin County. The community reported ten residents in 1990. The population remained the same in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/rattan-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Rattan, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/rattan-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":99,"twn_name":"Rocky Point","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Simmons<\/twn> for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Rocky Point<\/b>, more commonly known as Simmons<\/twn>, but also known as Jackson's Chapel<\/i>, was a mile east of Ben Franklin and south of the North Sulphur River on a dirt road just off Farm Road 128 in northwestern Delta County. The area was settled in the early 1840s, and the Simmons School soon became the center of local activities. Early teachers included D. R. Black and a Professor Hall. In 1886 the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway built track through the area just north of Ben Franklin, which became a stop on the line. The Simmons school had thirty-three students and one teacher in 1905. Simmons was not labeled on the 1936 county highway map, but the school, a cemetery, and a cluster of dwellings remained in the vicinity. A 1964 map identified the Simmons cemetery. By 1970 local children attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. The cemetery was still designated on a 1984 map.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/simmons-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Simmons, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/simmons-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":80,"twn_name":"Sharptown ","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":38,"twn_name":"Shiloh","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.306500","twn_lon":"-95.818296","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Shiloh<\/b> (Shilough) is a small farming community at the intersection of State Highway 24 and Farm Road 1531, four miles southwest of Klondike in southwestern Delta County. The area, originally part of the John Hamilton land grant, was first settled in 1844, when John Miller brought his family to Texas from Hopkins County, Kentucky. In the first year local residents traveled to Pinhook, later called Paris, to transact business. But Miller established a corn mill in 1845, and a settlement soon developed around it. Residents also quickly organized the Shiloh Baptist congregation, and in 1847 they built a combination church, schoolhouse, and community center. By 1867 the Shiloh school district had been started, and, also during the 1860s, local Methodists established a church. The Baptist church moved to nearby Needmore before 1900. Early in the 1900s thirty-one community members organized a chapter of the Woodman of the World. In 1904 the Shiloh Church of the Nazarene was built, under the direction of C. B. Jernigan; it had seventeen charter members, including Ethel Sharp, J. H. Ray, J. T. Simmons, and Emma and Bruce Robnett. The church transferred to Klondike in 1906 but later returned. The school enrolled fifty-four White students and employed one teacher in 1905. Students in the Shiloh system numbered between fifty and seventy from about 1910 through the 1920s. During the Great Depression the local population declined, and in 1934 the school was conducted by Fred England and had thirty-five students. The 1936 county highway map did not identify the community, though it showed the school, a church, and Shiloh Cemetery. In 1945 the school merged with the Klondike School to form the West Delta school district. A 1964 map labeled the Shiloh Church and Cemetery and a few scattered dwellings at the site. By 1970 local students attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District, and in 1984 maps designated Shiloh as a church and cemetery community.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/shiloh-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Shiloh, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/shiloh-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":39,"twn_name":"Simmons","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.474551","twn_lon":"-95.748572","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Simmons<\/b>, also known as Rocky Point<\/i> and as Jackson's Chapel<\/i>, was a mile east of Ben Franklin and south of the North Sulphur River on a dirt road just off Farm Road 128 in northwestern Delta County. The area was settled in the early 1840s, and the Simmons School soon became the center of local activities. Early teachers included D. R. Black and a Professor Hall. In 1886 the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway built track through the area just north of Ben Franklin, which became a stop on the line. The Simmons school had thirty-three students and one teacher in 1905. Simmons was not labeled on the 1936 county highway map, but the school, a cemetery, and a cluster of dwellings remained in the vicinity. A 1964 map identified the Simmons cemetery. By 1970 local children attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. The cemetery was still designated on a 1984 map.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/simmons-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Simmons, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/simmons-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":81,"twn_name":"Slabtown","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":40,"twn_name":"Underwood","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Underwood<\/b>, also known as Honest<\/i>, was a farming community on the East Fork of Jernigan Creek five miles south of Pecan Gap and just east of Jot 'Em Down in western Delta County. The area was settled by 1900, when the Honest post office was established there. The name came from local resident Saint Thompson, who took it from a tin of Honest Snuff. The Honest community failed to prosper, and in 1905 its post office was closed. By 1915 the property had become part of the Underwood Farm, a large tenant-farming operation (see FARM TENANCY). That year the Underwood School, one of the last organized in the county, was established for the tenants' children. The community was not shown on the 1936 county highway map, and the school was consolidated into the Pecan Gap district in 1949.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/underwood-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Underwood, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/underwood-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":82,"twn_name":"Union","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Union<\/b>, commonly known as Crossroads<\/twn>, but at various times known as Clem<\/i>, and Hog Wallow<\/i>, is a small black community at the intersection of Farm roads 2949 and 128, four miles northwest of Enloe in northwestern Delta County. It is bordered to the southwest by the East Fork of Big Creek. The Crossroads school opened as Hog Wallow School in 1895. In 1903 Emmett C. Norwood opened a post office and called the settlement Clem, in honor of a prominent county family. The postal service ended after four years, and residents soon began to call the community Crossroads for its location. Crossroads appeared on maps as an unidentified community in 1936. It had a large school, one business, and a cluster of dwellings at the intersection of Farm Road 128 and a dirt road. By 1960 the school had been absorbed by the Cooper Independent School District. In 1964 the community's population was twenty-five. Crossroads still appeared on maps in 1984 and had ten inhabitants in 1990 and in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/crossroads-tx-delta-county* Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Crossroads, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/crossroads-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":41,"twn_name":"Unitia","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.451843","twn_lon":"-95.637969","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"The GPS coordinates are base on a best guess location from the text below.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Unitia <\/b>was just west of Farm Road 1742, a mile northeast of Enloe, and 1½ miles southwest of Mount Joy in north central Delta County. The area had been settled by 1878, when the Unitia School opened. Early teachers included S. C. Unsell, M. W. Smith, and W. H. Maupin. The community developed after 1884, when the Texas Midland Railroad began a line through the area. In 1884 a post office opened there, with Lessonberry B. Enloe as postmaster; it was named by John Costen for his former Tennessee home. At that time the only business in the community was a country store. By 1888 Costen, the local pharmacist, had become the postmaster, and Unitia included 275 citizens, who were served by three plant nurseries, two cotton gins, two general stores, two doctors, a corn mill, a blacksmith, a woodworker, and the Mills and Smith Cattle Company. Within two years, however, the nurseries and the cattle company had closed, and the population had decreased to 250. In 1897 the school enrolled seventy-nine pupils and employed one teacher. At that time many local residents shopped in nearby Enloe, a larger community, and gradually they moved there. The Unitia post office was discontinued in 1903. In 1904 Methodist residents filed a deed for the Unitia Methodist Protestant Church, and the next year the school reported fifty-two White students. Bessie Viles taught the last classes at Unitia School in 1913, the year it was merged with the Enloe district. Unitia was not shown on the 1936 county highway map. A few scattered homes remained at the site in 1964.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/unitia-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Unitia, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/unitia-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":42,"twn_name":"Vasco","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.415110","twn_lon":"-95.495232","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":20,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Vasco<\/b> is on Farm Road 895 just below Dry Creek and three miles northeast of Charleston in eastern Delta County. The area was inhabited by 1903, when Mrs. O. C. Anderson opened a post office at the site. The community was named Vasco when the post office department altered Velasco, the requested name, because there was already a Velasco in Texas. In 1905 a school, called Long Branch, was established to serve local children; that year it had sixty-six students and one teacher. The town was bypassed by the railroads and never prospered. Its post office closed in 1907, but the school adopted the name Vasco in 1921. The Vasco Baptist Church had been organized by 1931, when the congregation sent a representative to a meeting of the Delta County Baptist Association. The 1936 county highway map showed the community as a business, a church, and a cluster of dwellings at the junction of several dirt roads between Dry Creek and Lake Creek; at that time Vasco reported a population of twenty-five. In 1939 the school merged with Charleston, Long Ridge, and Cleveland to form the East Delta school district. Forty people lived in Vasco in 1952. By 1963 the school had closed, leaving three businesses and a few scattered farms on Farm Road 895 and a dirt road. By 1970 local students attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. Vasco reported a population of twenty in 1990. The population remained the same in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/vasco-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Vasco, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/vasco-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":83,"twn_name":"Velasco","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"View the Vasco<\/twn> town record for the GPS coordinates.","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Velasco<\/b>, renamed to Vasco<\/twn>, is on Farm Road 895 just below Dry Creek and three miles northeast of Charleston in eastern Delta County. The area was inhabited by 1903, when Mrs. O. C. Anderson opened a post office at the site. The community was named Vasco when the post office department altered Velasco, the requested name, because there was already a Velasco in Texas. In 1905 a school, called Long Branch, was established to serve local children; that year it had sixty-six students and one teacher. The town was bypassed by the railroads and never prospered. Its post office closed in 1907, but the school adopted the name Vasco in 1921. The Vasco Baptist Church had been organized by 1931, when the congregation sent a representative to a meeting of the Delta County Baptist Association. The 1936 county highway map showed the community as a business, a church, and a cluster of dwellings at the junction of several dirt roads between Dry Creek and Lake Creek; at that time Vasco reported a population of twenty-five. In 1939 the school merged with Charleston, Long Ridge, and Cleveland to form the East Delta school district. Forty people lived in Vasco in 1952. By 1963 the school had closed, leaving three businesses and a few scattered farms on Farm Road 895 and a dirt road. By 1970 local students attended classes within the Cooper Independent School District. Vasco reported a population of twenty in 1990. The population remained the same in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/vasco-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Vasco, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/vasco-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":84,"twn_name":"Volney","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Volney<\/b>, more commonly known as Lone Star<\/i>, but also known as Barton<\/i>, was on the old Bonham and Jefferson road a mile east of Jot 'Em Down in western Delta County. The area was settled by 1878, when the Lone Star school was established. In 1886 a post office opened as Volney, with Ellen S. Billingsley as postmistress; service was discontinued in 1888. The railroad failed to pass through Lone Star, and the settlement declined as larger rail towns, such as nearby Pecan Gap, prospered. By 1936 Lone Star was no longer identified on maps, though at the site were a school, a church, and one business. The school was consolidated with the Pecan Gap system in 1949, and in 1964 only a few scattered farms remained in the area.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lone-star-tx-delta-county * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Lone Star, TX (Delta County),” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/lone-star-tx-delta-county.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":43,"twn_name":"West Delta","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.328899","twn_lon":"-95.784292","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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West Delta<\/b>West Delta is on State Highway 24 one mile southwest of Klondike in southwestern Delta County. The little settlement developed as the center of the West Delta School District, established there in 1945. The educational system was formed with the consolidation of the Klondike and Shiloh systems after the Klondike building burned. By 1964 the West Delta School had closed, and only the Wintermute Memorial Hospital and a few scattered homes remained. In 1970 local students attended the Cooper Independent School District. West Delta still appeared on maps in 1984 as a church community.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/west-delta-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “West Delta, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/west-delta-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"},{"twn_id":100,"twn_name":"Yates Prairie","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":null,"twn_lon":null,"twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":"","twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":"","twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"","got_twn_text":""},{"twn_id":44,"twn_name":"Yowell","twn_county":"Delta","twn_lat":"33.345267","twn_lon":"-95.859328","twn_elev":"","twn_size":"","twn_pop":30,"twn_zipcode":"","twn_areacode":903,"twn_directions":"","twn_image":"","twn_caption":"","twn_text":"

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Yowell<\/b> is at the junction of Farm roads 904 and 2068, between Barnett Creek and the West Fork of Jernigan Creek five miles west of Klondike on the Hunt county line in extreme western Delta County. It was named for J. W. Yowell, who operated a general store there early in the 1880s, and it became a stop on the stage line from Pecan Gap to Commerce during that time period. The Yowell Methodist Episcopal Church South had been organized by 1900, when the trustees obtained a deed. By 1915 Yowell had a population of thirty, a store, two churches, a cotton gin, a school, and a pharmacy. Ida V. Spears, the first postal officer, opened the post office early in the 1920s. In 1925 Yowell had a population of 150, and in 1931 it had two businesses. Maps for 1936 identified the settlement as two churches and a cluster of dwellings on gravel and dirt roads. In 1940 the community had three businesses, a school, and two churches; the population had decreased to seventy. In 1964 the school and businesses had closed, but the two churches and a scattered collection of dwellings remained. Local children attended Cooper Independent School District in 1970. Yowell still appeared on maps as a church community in 1984 and had fifteen residents in 1990. The population remained the same in 2000.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\nSource: <\/b>E * https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/yowell-tx * Handbook of Texas<\/link> - Vista K. McCroskey, “Yowell, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online<\/i>, accessed May 06, 2026, https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/yowell-tx.","got_twn_text":"Yes"}]}