Todd City is an

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in Anderson County, in the

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. According to the

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, only 10 people lived in the community in 2000. It is located within the

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micropolitan area.

History

Todd City is thought to be named for a family who lived there in the late 1880s with the same last name. It had a

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, oil tanks, and numerous scattered housing units in the 1930s and 1940s. It also had several scattered homes in 1982 and had only one operating business three years later. Oil production is currently occurring in a nearby oilfield. It had a population of only 10 in 2000.

Geography

Todd City sits at the juncture of Farm to Market Road 19 and an unknown country road, west of the

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, as well as some northeast of

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in the northeastern portion of Anderson County.

Education

Todd City is served by the

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References

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