Bronson is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in west central
Sabine County,
Texas
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, United States.
It is located on
U.S. Route 96 at the junction of
State Highway 184, nine miles west of
Hemphill. The ZIP Code for Bronson is 75930.
Named for
Samuel Bronson Cooper, the area was first settled in 1895 by settler and developer
John Henry Kirby. In 1902, he started the ''Kirby Lumber Company'', which at one time controlled more than 300,000 acres (1200 km) of East Texas pinelands and operated thirteen sawmills. That same year, a post office and weekly newspaper - the Bronson Bulletin, were established. The
Bronson Independent School District was created in 1905.
Bronson had a population of 1,000 in 1910. During the 1920s, the population peaked at approximately 1,200 as major highway construction began in the area. Economic hardships and a diminishing timber supply during the 1930s resulted in a
population decline
Population decline, also known as depopulation, is a reduction in a human population size. Throughout history, Earth's total world population, human population has estimates of historical world population, continued to grow but projections sugg ...
, which accelerated in the 1940s. By 1949, Bronson had an estimated 300 residents.
Bronson ISD consolidated with the
Pineland schools in 1962, forming the
West Sabine Independent School District. In 1992, Bronson was home to 254 residents. That figure rose to 377 by 2000.
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Unincorporated communities in Sabine County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas