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This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Texas, listed by county. This may include disincorporated communities, towns with no incorporated status, ghost towns, or census-designated places.
Texas does not have townships; areas within a county are either incorporated or unincorporated. Incorporated areas are part of a city, though the city may contract with the county for needed services. Unincorporated areas are not part of a city; in these areas the county has authority for law enforcement and road maintenance.
Census-designated places (CDPs) are unincorporated communities lacking elected municipal officers and boundaries with legal status. [1] The term "census designated place" has been used as an official classification by the U.S. Census Bureau since 1980. [2] Prior to that, select unincorporated communities were surveyed in the U.S. Census. [2]
Barnes Switch (also known as Barnes) is an unincorporated community in Trinity County, Texas, United States. The community is located at the junction of Texas State Highway 19 and Farm to Market Road 1893. Barnes Switch was formed around a railroad switch on the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity, and Sabine Railway and was named for the physician S. E ...
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It was founded in the 1890s, and was called Truss, after resident John Truss. The post office was established in 1893 or 1894. In 1962, Bug Tussle had a population of six. From 1966 to the mid-1980s, real estate developer David Graham Hall took a 15-year lease to renovate the downtown. Thirty people lived in the downtown, called 'West Bug ...
March 2 – Texas joins the Confederate States of America. 1866–1876 The Sutton–Taylor feud, which involves outlaw John Wesley Hardin, and is reportedly the bloodiest and longest in Texas history. Hardin's men are known to have stayed in the community of Pilgrim. [17] [18] 1870, March 30 – The United States Congress readmits Texas into ...