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Wall 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 Tom Green County,
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, United States. According to the ''
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'', the community had an estimated population of 200 in 2000. The community is part of the
San Angelo, Texas San Angelo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Tom Green County, Texas, United States. Its location is in the Concho Valley, a region of West Texas between the Permian Basin (North America), Permian Basin to the northwest, Chihuahuan Desert ...
Metropolitan Statistical Area.


Geography

Wall is located in Tom Green County, Texas.


History

The area was known by several different names (Lipan School, Little School, and Murray's Store) after it was settled in the mid-1880s. The community was named Wall after James Madison Wall Sr., a shopkeeper who served as postmaster after the town's post office opened in 1906. Wall served as a trading center for the fertile Lipan Flat region. The population stood at roughly 250 in 1920, 120 through the 1930s and 1940s, and had slightly risen to around 200 during the latter half of the 20th century. The community currently supports several businesses and a post office (zip code: 76957), and a school. Author
Jenny Lawson Jennifer Lawson (born December 29, 1973) is an American journalist, author and blogger. Biography Lawson is from Wall, Texas and is a graduate of Angelo State University. She is the author of The Bloggess website and formerly wrote the Ill Advi ...
's bestselling memoir ''Let's Pretend This Never Happened'' discusses growing up in Wall, Texas.


Education

Public education in the community of Wall is provided by the Wall Independent School District, which also serves the surrounding rural areas of southeastern Tom Green County.


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* * Unincorporated communities in Texas Unincorporated communities in Tom Green County, Texas San Angelo, Texas metropolitan area {{TomGreenCountyTX-geo-stub