Cotton Center, Texas

Unincorporated community in Texas, United States

Cotton Center, Texas

Unincorporated community

Cotton Center

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Coordinates: 33°59′35″N 101°59′35″W﻿ / ﻿33.99306°N 101.99306°W﻿ / 33.99306; -101.99306
Country|  United States
State|  Texas
County| Hale
Region| Llano Estacado
Established| 1925
Elevation

[1]

| 3,474 ft (1,059 m)
Population

(2000)

• Total

| 174
Time zone| UTC-6 (CST)
ZIP code|

79021

Area code| 806
Website| Handbook of Texas

Cotton Center is an unincorporated community in western Hale County, Texas, United States, located about 12 miles southwest of Hale Center. Until the late 19th century, the Comanche tribe of Native Americans occupied the area. In 1907, with the coming of a branch of the Santa Fe Railroad, a number of farming operations were established. Cotton Center was originally created in 1925 as a consolidated school district, with a small unincorporated community site, containing the school, cotton gins, and various businesses to support the surrounding farms.[2] In 1935, a local post office opened, and the first irrigation well was drilled.[2] By the late 1940s, irrigation wells proliferated, pumping water from the Ogallala Aquifer. The community revolves around farming and is tied together by the school, which as of 2005 had 140 students in prekindergarten through grade 12.

## Education

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The community of Cotton Center is served by the Cotton Center Independent School District and home to the Cotton Center High School Elks.

## See also

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* Spade Ranch (Texas)
* Llano Estacado
* Blackwater Draw
* Yellow House Draw

## References

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1. ^ "Cotton Center". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. ^ a b Payne, Julia M. "Cotton Center, TX (Hale County)". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved December 30, 2010.

## External links

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* Cotton Center, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online
* Cotton Center ISD
* Mary L. Cox, History of Hale County, Texas (Plainview, Texas, 1937)
* U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cotton Center, Texas
* Photos of West Texas and the Llano Estacado

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Municipalities and communities of Hale County, Texas, United States

County seat: Plainview

Cities|

* Abernathy‡
* Hale Center
* Petersburg
* Plainview

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Town|

* Edmonson

CDP|

* Seth Ward

Other
community|

* Cotton Center

Ghost town|

* Hale City

Footnotes|

‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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