Rucker is an
unincorporated community
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located in
Comanche County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Texas
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.
History
The community was named for Calvin Rucker, who established a gin there in 1890. The first
mail carrier
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was Ira Harvey, while the first postmaster was Bob Lewis. The community's population was 25 in 1940. A filling station named Lightfoot that opened in 1930 was the only business in Rucker in 1976. It continued to be listed on county maps in 1990.
Geography
Rucker is located on
Texas State Highway 6
State Highway 6 (SH 6) runs from the Red River, the Texas–Oklahoma state line, to northwest of Galveston, where it is known as the Old Galveston Highway. In Sugar Land and Missouri City, it is known as Alvin-Sugarland Road and runs per ...
on the
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, northwest of
De Leon in northern Comanche County.
Education
Rucker had its own school at one time and sat on land donated by a man named Pat Johnson.
Today, the community is served by the
Gorman Independent School District.
References
Unincorporated communities in Comanche County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
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