Duplex 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
Fannin County, Texas
Fannin County is a county in the far northeast of the U.S. state of Texas, on the border with Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, its population was 35,662, making it the 87th-most populous county in Texas. The entirety of Fannin County is a part ...
, United States, located on
Farm to Market Road 273, north of
Bonham. Duplex was founded in the 1880s and named for two families who had settled the area in the 1850s. The community had a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
from 1899 to 1909; it also had two segregated schools. As of 2000, Duplex had a population of 25.
References
Unincorporated communities in Fannin County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
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