Avoca ( ) is an

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Jones County, Texas Jones County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 19,663. Its county seat is Anson. The county was created in 1858 and organized in 1881. Both the county and its county seat are named for Ans ...

, United States. It is on State Highway 6 at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Roads 600 and 1636, 8 mi southeast of Stamford. Avoca is part of the

Abilene, Texas Abilene ( ) is a city in Taylor and Jones Counties in Texas, United States. Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the state of Texas. It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statis ...

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History

Avoca was laid out at its current location in 1900, when the railroad was extended to that point; the town site had formerly been located a few miles away. The name is derived from the post office at the former site called Avo, before then the small town was called Spring Creek. In 2022 Avoca currently has 2 churches Avoca Baptist Church Pastor Mims and Avoca United Methodist Church formly Pastor was Dennis Huffaker and the Lueders Avoca High School. No post office or stores.

Education

The Lueders-Avoca Independent School District serves the area's high school students in grades 9 through 12.

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through 8th grade attend the Lueders Campus.

Notable person

Charles Stenholm Charles Walter Stenholm (born October 26, 1938) is an American businessman and Democratic Party politician from a rural district of the State of Texas. After establishing himself as owner/operator of a large cotton farm, he entered politics and ...

lived in Avoca while a member of the

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. Barone, Michael; and Ujifusa, Grant. '' The Almanac of American Politics 1988', p. 1174. ''

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'', 1987.

References

External links

Avoca, Texas
– Texas Escapes Online Magazine * * Unincorporated communities in Jones County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas Abilene metropolitan area 1900 establishments in Texas {{JonesCountyTX-geo-stub