Shepton is an area within Plano,

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that used to be a distinct community. Park and Preston

Shepton was founded about 1890, when Joseph W. Shepard opened a general store ten miles southwest of

McKinney McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano and Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about north of Dallas. The U.S. Census Bureau lis ...

, with the town deriving its name from Shepard's. From 1894 to 1903, Shepton had a post office, but most residents migrated over the years to nearby Plano, also in southwestern Collin County, with the growing Plano absorbing the area of the former community by the 1980s.

Shepton High School Shepton High School is a secondary school in Plano, Texas, Plano, Texas United States, (USA), serving grades nine and ten. It is part of the Plano Independent School District. In Plano ISD, high school freshmen and sophomores attend one of six hi ...

is named after the town of Shepton.

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* * ---- Plano, Texas Populated places in Collin County, Texas {{CollinCountyTX-geo-stub