Allamoore (sometimes spelled Allamore) is a small,

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in Hudspeth County,

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, United States. It is located just north of

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, approximately southeast of Sierra Blanca and west of Van Horn. First settled in the 1880s, a post office was established in the area under the name Acme in 1884. It was closed two years later. A new post office opened in 1888 under the name Allamoore after the first postmistress, Alla R. Moore. It closed in 1895 only to open two years later under the same name. Throughout its history, Allamoore has remained a sparsely populated ranching community. The population stood at 10 in 1914 and rose to 25 by the mid-1920s. Just prior to the

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, that figure grew to 75. In the mid-1930s, the population was estimated at 25. Seventy pupils from the surrounding ranches attended Allamoore School. Allamoore experienced another increase in the mid-1940s, which lasted for around 20 years before the community went into permanent decline. As of 2000, approximately 25 people reside in the Allamoore area. It is also one of the few cities in Texas that is in the Mountain Time Zone along with

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Education

By the 1988–89 school year, the Allamoore Consolidated Independent School District (renamed the

Allamoore Independent School District The Allamoore Independent School District was a public school district based in the community of Allamoore, Texas, United States. The approximately district was known as the Allamoore Consolidated Independent District prior to 1992. History Th ...

in 1992) had a total enrollment of eight students – the smallest enrollment in Texas. On July 1, 1995, Allamoore ISD consolidated with the Culberson County Independent School District based in nearby Van Horn to form the

Culberson County-Allamoore Independent School District Culberson County-Allamoore Independent School District is a public school district based in Van Horn, Texas (USA). The district serves all of Culberson County, and eastern portions of Hudspeth County. As of the 2021-2022 school year, the distr ...

. All of the county is in the service area of

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.Texas Education Code, Section 130.178, "El Paso County Community College District Service Area"

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* {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Hudspeth County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas