All About Texas, P. 1

[nuranar]

In a lighter vein than yesterday, I figured I'd pass along something that showed up in my email yesterday.

All of these are names of cities or towns in Texas. Enjoy! :)

Just Texas
Pep, Texas 79353
Smiley, Texas 78159
Paradise, Texas 76073
Rainbow, Texas 76077
Sweet Home, Texas 77987
Comfort, Texas 78013
Friendship, Texas 76530

Love the sun?
Sun City, Texas 78628
Sunrise, Texas 76661
Sunset, Texas 76270
Sundown, Texas 79372
Sunray, Texas 79086
Sunny Side, Texas 77423

Want something to eat?
Bacon, Texas 76301
Noodle, Texas 79536
Oatmeal, Texas 78605
Turkey, Texas 79261 [Location of last weekend's retro dance]
Trout, Texas 75789
Sugar Land, Texas 77479 [Current home of Bro. No. 2!]
Salty, Texas 76567
Rice, Texas 75155
Pearland, Texas 77581
Orange, Texas 77630

And top it off with:
Sweetwater, Texas 79556

Why travel to other cities? Texas has them all!
Arlington, Texas 76010
Boston, Texas 75570
Cleveland, Texas 75436
Colorado City, Texas 79512
Columbus, Texas 78934
Denver City, Texas 79323
Detroit, Texas 75436
Klondike, Texas 75448
Memphis, Texas 79245
Miami, Texas 79059
Newark, Texas 76071
Nevada, Texas 75173
Pasadena, Texas 77506
Pittsburg, Texas 75686
Reno, Texas 75462
Santa Fe, Texas 77517
Tennessee Colony, Texas 75861


Feel like traveling outside the country?
Athens, Texas 75751
Canadian, Texas 79014
China , Texas 77613
Dublin, Texas 76446
Egypt, Texas 77436
Ireland, Texas 76538
Italy, Texas 76538
London, Texas 76854
New London, Texas 75682
Odessa, Texas 79760
Palestine, Texas 75801
Paris, Texas 75460
Turkey, Texas 79261

No need to travel to Washington, D.C.
Whitehouse, Texas 75791

We even have a city named after our planet!
Earth, Texas 79031

We have a city named after our state:
Texas City, Texas 77590

Exhausted?
Energy, Texas 76452

Cold?
Blanket, Texas 76432
Winters, Texas 79567

Like to read about History?
Santa Anna, Texas 76878
Goliad, Texas 77963
Alamo, Texas 78516
Gun Barrel City, Texas 75156
Robert Lee, Texas 76945

Need office Supplies?
Staples, Texas 78670

Want to visit among the solar system?
Venus, Texas 76084
Mars, Texas 79062

You guessed it. It's on the state line.
Texline, Texas 79087

For the kids?
Kermit, Texas 79745
Elmo, Texas 75118
Nemo, Texas 76070
Tarzan, Texas 79783
Winnie, Texas 77665
Sylvester, Texas 79560

Other city names in Texas , to make you smile.
Frognot, Texas 75424
Bigfoot, Texas 78005
Hogeye, Texas 75423
Cactus, Texas 79013
Notrees, Texas 79759
Best, Texas 76932
Veribest, Texas 76886
Kickapoo, Texas 75763
Dime Box, Texas 77853
Old Dime Box, Texas 77853
Telephone, Texas 75488
Telegraph, Texas 76883
Whiteface, Texas 79379
Twitty, Texas 79079


Our favorites.
Cut and Shoot, Texas 77303
Gun Barrel City, Texas 75147
Ding Dong, Texas
West, Texas (located in Central Texas!)

and, of course,
Muleshoe, Texas 79347

Comments

[misshoneybee.livejournal.com]

Haha, thanks for sharing--I got a few laughs out of that! :)

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

It is pretty amusing!

[ramblin_rosie]

They forgot Washington-on-the-Brazos and Bogota (Bug-OH-ta)! ;)
Funny thing is, I'm currently writing a story that's set, in part, in Muleshoe. :D

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Heh, I know! And what about Mexia (Muh-HEY-uh)? There are so many, I'm really impressed at how near-complete it is.

[ramblin_rosie]

And Iraan (I-ra-AN), which outsiders *always* mispronounce as Iran....

What's also funny to me is the number of those towns that I've either been to/through or know where they are!

[snowywolfowl.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

Wow. Some of those names make perfect sense and others I'm thinking were probably picked after a night of hitting the whiskey bottle. Still any way you cut it Texas clearly has some character in their choice of municipal names.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Heh, for real! "Notrees" is similar to "Plainview" and "Levelland," in that it's exactly how it sounds. Some of the others, though... Tarzan? I dunno, but I'd love to have that on my address labels. :D

[princess-mia.livejournal.com]

lol, I love all the names from other states and countries.;)

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

It's pretty funny to visit Paris and Palestine in the same day. ;) And I was in Turkey on Saturday!

[spally.livejournal.com]

I love it!!

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Hee, I knew you would! A couple others that I can think of:

Flower Mound
Grapevine
Rockwall
Levelland
Plainview
Odessa (need to add that one to the list, actually)

[polemically.livejournal.com]

This was pretty awesome. Makes me wish I didn't live in my generically named, prison-themed town. /angst

;)

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no kidding! All of us in ordinary towns are pretty left out. :D I really don't know why you got the ordinary one; there are some pretty interesting ones around you, if not as crazy as these then at least reflective of their history or heritage.
Did you know that Fort Worth almost didn't get the county seat? Beeville, of all things, narrowly missed it. Imagine, instead of Dallas-Fort Worth, Dallas-Beeville!

[polemically.livejournal.com]

I got the ordinary one because that's where Ken was living at the time. I suppose I could make some sort of cruel joke correlating him and the town, but honestly, that would take too much effort...and my social desirability (a new term I learned in psych class) would lose a few points. :p

Though, coincidentally enough, he used to live in Beeville...I always imagined rows upon rows of bee and honey farms, but I've been told that Beeville is not nearly as grand as that.

/ramble

[suededsilk.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha! Love it, especially the dual Dime Boxes.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

No kidding! I mean, I actually understand "old" versus the current one, but where in the world did "Dime Box" itself come from? Hee!

[mumstheword54.livejournal.com]

Texas, our Texas!

Love the list!

Here's what's on the "Handbook of Texas" website about Dime Box and Old Dime Box:

DIME BOX, TEXAS. Dime Box is on Farm Road 141 twelve miles northeast of Giddings in eastern Lee County. It originated between 1869 and 1877, when a settler built a sawmill near what is now State Highway 21, three miles northwest of the site of the present community. Records suggest that the mill's builder was Joseph S. Brown, and the settlement of British-Americans, Czechs, Poles, Germans, and German-Wends which grew up around the mill was known as Brown's Mill (Browne's Mill, Brown's Mills). A Union School opened in January 1874. The school later housed the local Presbyterian church, which was one of the earliest of this denomination in the state.

Until a government post office opened in 1877, settlers deposited outgoing mail and a dime in a small box inside Brown's office for a weekly delivery to Giddings.

The Brown's Mill post office closed in December 1883. When it reopened the following spring, frequent confusion of Brown's Mill with Brownsville had caused the town to be renamed Dime Box.

In 1913, when the Southern Pacific Railroad built a line three miles southeast of Dime Box, the original settlement became Old Dime Box, and the new railroad station became Dime Box. The railroad encouraged growth, and the community's estimated population increased from 127 in 1904 to 500 in 1925.

The town received national attention in the 1940s when a CBS broadcast kicked off the March of Dimes drive from Dime Box.

The number of residents remained between 300 and 500 throughout the middle years of the twentieth century and was estimated at 313 from 1972 through 2000. In the late 1970s oil was discovered in the Dime Box area.