Cut (also known as Paso or Paso Switch) is an

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, United States. Cut is located on

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south of

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. The town was founded around a watering rest stop along the

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, and was originally called Paso or Paso Switch, and was renamed in 1900. By the 1990s, Cut had been abandoned.

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