Enloe, Texas
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Enloe 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 Delta County,
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, United States. According to the
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, the community had a population of 113 in 2000.


History

The region was first settled in 1888 and incorporated in 1897 upon the construction of a railway stop. 113 people were living there as of 1990 and 2000. It went up to 125 in 2010. On June 2, 1954, a large, F2 tornado killed one and injured eight in Enloe. On January 10, 2020, an EF0 tornado struck Enloe. A couple of small outbuildings were destroyed with debris scattered a few hundred yards downwind in a subtle cyclonic pattern. Today, there are two museums in Enloe; the Patterson Museum and the Clara Foster Slough Museum.


Geography

Enloe is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 2949 and
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, north of Cooper in north-central Delta County. It also borders a nearby stream, Brushy Creek, to the southwest.


Notable people

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Lester Bangs Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist and critic. He wrote for ''Creem'' and ''Rolling Stone'' magazines and was also a performing musician. The music critic Jim DeRogatis called ...
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and critic. His father is from Enloe. * Goldie Holt,
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and
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.


Gallery

File:Clara Foster Slough Museum.JPG, Clara Foster Slough Museum


References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Delta County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex