Lingleville, Texas
Census-designated place in the United States in Erath County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Lingleville
Lingleville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Erath County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lingleville had a population of 166. Lingleville is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 8 and Farm to Market Road 219, 10 miles (16 km) west of Stephenville.
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How Lingleville is governed
Lingleville 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 Erath County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Lingleville does have local officials.
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Residents of Lingleville
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History
In 1884 R. P. Campbell opened a grocery store in his house in the hollow below what is now the townsite. Before a post office was established there in 1885, the community was called Needmore. It was renamed to honor John Lingle, who had settled there in 1874. In 1901, a downtown robbery and subsequent fire almost completely devastated the town. In 1919, an oil boom at the nearby Desdemona oil field increased settlement in Lingleville. In 1940 the town had the post office, four businesses, and 200 residents. From 1980 through 2000, its population was reported as 100.
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