Newman is a small
El Paso
El Paso (; ; or ) is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The 2020 United States census, 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the List of ...
neighborhood in far
Northeast El Paso
Northeast El Paso is part of the city of El Paso, Texas and is located north of Central El Paso, and east of the Franklin Mountains (Texas), Franklin Mountains. Its southern boundary is variously given as Fred Wilson Boulevard or Cassidy Road an ...
, located some 16 miles northeast of downtown El Paso around the intersection of Dyer Street and Edge of Texas Drive on the New Mexico state line, and still sometimes described as a separate community.
In 1990, it had a population of approximately 60 people.
It was named for real estate developer Henry L. Newman, who earlier tried to develop
Newman, New Mexico, just to the north across the
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ...
border, without much success. He fared only moderately better in Texas. In 1930, the
United States Census
The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States. It takes place every ten years. The first census after the American Revolution was taken in 1790 United States ce ...
listed Newman as having a population of 10 people.
Newman had a
post office
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from 1922 to 1971.
References
Populated places in El Paso County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
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