Sidney, Texas
Unincorporated community in Comanche County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Sidney
Sidney is an unincorporated community in Comanche County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 196 in 2000.
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How Sidney is governed
Sidney 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 Comanche County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Sidney does have local officials.
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Residents of Sidney
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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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Police Chief
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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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Hears traffic, ordinance and other minor cases.
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Presides over the municipal court.
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History
Sidney was originally known as Jimmie's Creek, Canady, or Round Mountain before being named after a son of the community's first postmaster, John C. Stapp, in 1886.
The area was settled some time before 1870 by William Yarbrough and J.A. Wright. The pioneers chose this location for the spring-fed stream that was nearby. Later, this stream was named Jimmie's Creek for Captain James Cunningham. The first school, a one-room log cabin, was organized in the fall of 1877 with 28 students. By the end of the first school year, the students had increased to some 40 in number, and by 1880, 80 were attending school for the short annual term.
Tom Davis opened the first general store in 1883, and the first cotton gin was erected in 1895 by W. C. Jackson. When the community reached peak population in the late 1890s and 1900s, Sidney had a barber shop, a two-story lodge building, drug stores, gins, and general mercantile stores that sold items ranging from groceries to buggies.
In the 1940s, the community had 200 people, a school, and several churches and businesses. The community's population was 148 in 2010.
Although Sidney is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP Code 76474.
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