Dawn, Texas
Unincorporated community in Deaf Smith County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Dawn
Dawn is an unincorporated community in eastern Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 52 in 2000.
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How Dawn is governed
Dawn 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 Deaf Smith County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Dawn does have local officials.
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Residents of Dawn
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History
Jim Moore, the T Anchor Ranch's boss, built a dugout approximately six miles southwest of the present-day townsite in 1887, giving rise to Dawn. After buying the dugout and the filing rights for the nearby areas two years later, J. H. Parrish eventually constructed a general store for the ranchers in the region. According to legend, he named it "Dawn of a New Country," or "Dawn of Civilization," and the first word of the sentence was picked as the name when he filed for a post office. According to another story, Parrish declared, "This is the dawn of a new day," when he first saw the land. In a barn near Dawn, James N. Askren operated a broom manufacturing plant. Dawn was a thriving hamlet by the time Parrish sold his land holdings and relocated to Oklahoma in 1893. When the Pecos Valley and Northeastern Railway arrived and built a depot there in 1898, it was guaranteed to survive. Over the following few years, Dawn flourished as a rancher's shipping hub, drawing in several immigrant farmers. The town had a hotel with a small band playing in it, a community church (later a Baptist church), and a lumber mill by 1917. Wheat became the town's principal source of income by installing irrigation wells. In the 1940s, David Rodgers started selling his Deaf Smith corn meal, wheat berries, and stone-ground whole-wheat flour from his elevator at Dawn. Henry Turner had founded a stone-ground grain company. At the time, the town had 100 residents and four establishments. Later, Dawn lost several of its older enterprises, including its hotel, bank, railroad depot, lumberyard, and flour mill, to paved roads and improved transportation. Nevertheless, in 1973, some clubs constructed a new community center there. In 1984, Dawn reported 94 residents, a store, a post office, and three elevators. Although there were still 94 people living there in 1990, by 2000 the number had decreased to 52.
Although Dawn is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 79025.
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