Minden, Texas
Unincorporated community in Rusk County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Minden
Minden is an unincorporated community in Rusk County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 350 in 2000. It is located within the Longview, Texas metropolitan area.
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How Minden is governed
Minden 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 Rusk County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Minden does have local officials.
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Residents of Minden
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Mayor
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The city's chief elected official. Presides over the executive branch, proposes the budget and represents the city.
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City Manager / Administrator
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The professional administrator who runs day-to-day operations (in some cities appointed by the council instead of the mayor).
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Police Chief
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Leads the police department.
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Fire Chief
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Public Works Director
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Streets, water, sewer, and city buildings.
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The budget, taxes, and city accounts.
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Land use, zoning, building permits.
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Parks, programs, and public facilities.
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City Council
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City Clerk
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Keeps the official records, runs meeting agendas and, often, local elections.
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City Attorney
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The city's lawyer; advises officials and prosecutes ordinance violations.
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Citizen advisory bodies, such as planning, zoning appeals and library boards.
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Hears traffic, ordinance and other minor cases.
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Municipal Judge
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Presides over the municipal court.
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History
The original location of Minden was a mile east of where it currently stands today. The Lewis family relocated here from Georgia in 1849. H.W. Watson named the community for his hometown of Minden, Louisiana. A post office opened here in 1850 with William H. Pate serving as the first postmaster. In the next decade, the Marshall-to-Nacogdoches railroad built a track through Minden and had a store and a church. It then moved to its present site in the 1880s, in which it had 50 residents, a cotton gin, and three churches in 1884. The population went up to 155 with sawmills, gristmills, and a newspaper. It doubled during that decade but went down to 223 by the turn of the century. It went up to 250 in the mid-1940s, declined to 125 from the 1950s to 1960s, and went back up to 350 from the late 1960s through 2000.
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