Seagoville ( ) is a city in

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, United States, and a suburb of

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. A small portion of Seagoville extends into Kaufman County. The population was 14,835 at the 2010 census. The city is located along U.S. Highway 175, from downtown

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History

Seagoville was originally called Seago, and under this name was laid out in 1876 by T. K. Seago (1836–1904), and named after him. The

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changed the town's name to "Seagoville" in 1910 to prevent confusion with another city in Texas called Sego. During

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, the Federal Reformatory for Women in Seagoville was the site of an

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for Japanese,

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, and

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Americans classified as "enemy aliens" and women of Japanese and German ancestry deported from Latin America.Mak, Stephen
"Seogoville (detention facility)"
''Densho Encyclopedia'' (accessed 17 Jun 2014). Internees at Seagoville published a German language newsletter called the ''Sägedorfer Fliegende Blätter''. The camp housed up to 647 people, and was closed in June 1945, after the internees were either "repatriated" to Japan or Germany, or transferred to Crystal City, Texas.

Geography

Seagoville is located at (32.651920, –96.550033). According to the

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, the city has a total area of , of which are land and , or 1.58%, is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the

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, there were 18,446 people, 4,283 households, and 3,445 families residing in the city.

Government and infrastructure

Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville The Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville (FCI Seagoville) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Seagoville, Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a ...

is located in Seagoville. The

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operates the Seagoville Post Office on Seagoville Road in

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.Harris, Byron.
Seagoville post office to close
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. March 3, 2011. Retrieved on June 9, 2016. It was previously located at 314 Glendale Avenue, in a rented facility in Seagoville. Since around 1882 a post office had been located in the Seagoville city limits. In 2011, the USPS announced that it was closing the existing Seagoville post office and consolidating it into the Kleberg Post Office, a USPS-owned facility since renamed to the Seagoville Post Office, citing cost-cutting reasons in response to a budget shortfall. Though individuals had offered to pay for the rental costs at Seagoville, the USPS insisted on closing the city post office. As of 2011, the Seagoville city post office was busier than the Kleberg one.

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public schools

Portions of Seagoville are within three separate independent school districts.

=Dallas Independent School District

= Almost all of the Dallas County portion of Seagoville is served by the

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. The area is within the Board of Trustees District 4. Portions of Seagoville are zoned to Central Elementary School, Seagoville North Elementary School, and Seagoville Elementary School. All of the city is zoned to Seagoville Middle School (6–8), and

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(9–12). Seagoville North Elementary School was scheduled to open in 2012.New Schools-2008 Bond Program
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. Retrieved on January 8, 2010. Prior to 2012, the students in the Dallas County portion were zoned to Seagoville Elementary School (at the time, grades Pre-K–2) and Central Elementary School (at the time, grades 3–5). Seagoville Elementary, Seagoville North, and Central Elementary are within the Seagoville city limits, while Seagoville Middle and Seagoville High are in Dallas, near the city of Seagoville. Seagoville Alternative Center, an alternative school is within the city limits. DISD maintains the Seagoville Stadium. Seagoville Independent School District was previously the town's school district. In 1965, the district was absorbed into the Dallas Independent School District.

=Crandall Independent School District

= The minuscule Kaufman County portion is served by Crandall Independent School District. The students in the Crandall portion are zoned to Wilson Elementary School, Crandall Middle School, and Crandall High School. Wilson Elementary and Crandall Middle are within the city of Crandall. Crandall High is partially in Crandall and partially in unincorporated Kaufman County.

=Mesquite Independent School District

= A very small portion of northeast Seagoville is within the boundaries of

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. That portion is served by Achziger Elementary School, Terry Middle School, and John Horn High School (all three schools are in Mesquite). The area was formerly zoned to Thompson Elementary School.

=History of schools

= The first school established in Seagoville was the Brinegar School. The one-room log schoolhouse, which featured split-log seating, was constructed around 1867 in the area of the modern-day Heard Park. Professor J.T. Doss built a new school building in 1880;History
" City of Seagoville. Retrieved on February 13, 2012. it was called Woodside. Another school opened in a four-frame building. A cyclone destroyed one of its rooms in 1903, and in 1909 that school was destroyed in a fire. In 1910 a new brick high school building opened on the site of what is now Seagoville Elementary School. The building, a two-story facility with four rooms for upper grades upstairs and four rooms for lower grades downstairs, on land on North Kaufman Street was donated by Ben H. Fly. It was built for about $10,000 ($283,000 adjusted for inflation to 2022), and was known as "The High School" and "the Old Red Schoolhouse".Phillips, Billie Frank. ''Seagoville'' (Images of America).

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, 2011. , 9780738578637. p
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first opened in 1928 on land purchased in 1927. This high school building later burned down, and Central Elementary School opened on the former high-school site. The current high school facility and Seagoville Middle School opened on a plot of land donated by M.D. Reeves in 1952: one building opened in 1955 and the other opened in September 1958. Seagoville was in the Seagoville Independent School District until August 1964, when it merged into DISD.

Public libraries

Seagoville has its own public library, the Seagoville Public Library, at 702 North U.S. Highway 175.

Community colleges

The

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defines all of Dallas County (including the vast majority of Seagoville) as being in the

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(formerly Dallas County Community College or DCCCD) district. The portion in Kaufman County is within the

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district.Texas Education Code: Sec. 130.176. DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA. Sec. 130.205. TRINITY VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.
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Parks and recreation

The

operates the Seagoville Stadium in Seagoville.Athletic Facilities
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. Retrieved on February 24, 2012.

References

External links

City of Seagoville official website

SeagovilleNews.com – News & Information website

Seagoville Library

Seagoville Chamber of Commerce

Seagoville Economic Development Corporation
* Schools:
Seagoville Middle School
– Located in Kleberg, Dallas
Central Elementary School

Seagoville Elementary School

Seagoville North Elementary School
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