Sylvester, Texas
Unincorporated community in Fisher County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Sylvester
Sylvester is an unincorporated community in Fisher County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 79 in 2000.
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How Sylvester is governed
Sylvester 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 Fisher County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Sylvester does have local officials.
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Residents of Sylvester
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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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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
The Compere brothers of Abilene are credited with the founding of the community in 1903. They bought part of the AJ Ranch in anticipation of the arrival of the Kansas, Mexico and Orient Railway and named it in honor of W.W. Sylvester, the railroad's promotion manager. The rails reached Sylvester in 1905 and businesses followed. By 1909, the community had an estimated population of 600. Sylvester incorporated in 1927 and the 1930 census reported 382 residents. That figure rose to 405 in 1940. Competition from nearby towns caused Sylvester to decline. It had reverted to unincorporated status by 1950 and by the 1980s, fewer than 100 people remained in the community, but supported a grocery store, Sylvester Mercantile, owned and operated by C. L. "Chubb" Hardwick, a cotton gin owned operated by the Jeffery family of McCaulley and a gas station owned and operated by Truman Mauldin, as well as a seasonal granary.
Although Sylvester is unincorporated, it continues to have a post office in operation, with the zip code of 79560. During the 1960s and 1970s, the U.S. Post Office was managed by Postmaster Mrs. Buford (Ruth Brown), who retired in the late 1970s. Mrs. Bobbie Hardwick was postmaster until her retirement in 1999.
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