Cotton Center, Texas
Unincorporated community in Hale County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Cotton Center
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. In 1935, a local post office opened, and the first irrigation well was drilled. 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.
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How Cotton Center is governed
Cotton Center appears to be an unincorporated community or a census-designated place, so it may have no city government of its own — services usually come from Hale County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Cotton Center does have local officials.
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