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Blanket, Texas
Blanket is a town located in Brown County, Texas, Brown County in west-central Texas, United States. The population was 390 at the 2010 census. The town takes its name from nearby Blanket Creek. Geography Blanket is located in eastern Brown County at (31.826469, –98.788172). U.S. Routes U.S. Route 67 in Texas, 67 and U.S. Route 377 in Texas, 377 pass along the southeastern edge of the town, leading southwest to Brownwood, Texas, Brownwood, the county seat, and northeast to Comanche, Texas, Comanche. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, 402 people, 170 households, and 113 families resided in the town. The population density was . The 189 housing units averaged 328.9 per square mile (128.0/km). The Race (United States Census), racial makeup of the town was 92.54% White, 1.00% African American, 1.00% Native American, 3.73% from other races, and 1.74% from two or more races. Hispanics or ...
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A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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