Cotton Center is an
unincorporated community in western
Hale County, Texas,
United States, located about 12 miles southwest of
Hale Center. Until the late 19th century, the
Comanche
The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ( com, Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") are a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in La ...
tribe of Native Americans occupied the area. In 1907, with the coming of a branch of the
Santa Fe Railroad, a number of farming operations were established. Cotton Center was originally created in 1925 as a consolidated school district, with a small
unincorporated community site, containing the school, cotton gins, and various businesses to support the surrounding farms.
In 1935, a local post office opened, and the first irrigation well was drilled.
[ By the late 1940s, irrigation wells proliferated, pumping water from the Ogallala Aquifer. The community revolves around farming and is tied together by the school, which as of 2005 had 140 students in prekindergarten through grade 12.
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Education
The community of Cotton Center is served by the Cotton Center Independent School District and home to the Cotton Center High School Elks.
See also
* Spade Ranch (Texas)
*Llano Estacado
The Llano Estacado (), sometimes translated into English as the Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. One of the largest mesas or tablelands on the North A ...
* Blackwater Draw
* Yellow House Draw
References
External links
*
Cotton Center ISD
*Mary L. Cox, History of Hale County, Texas (Plainview, Texas, 1937)
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Unincorporated communities in Hale County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
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