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806. FIPS code. 48-71060 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1369397 [3] Sundown is a small town in Hockley County, Texas, United States. The community school district is Sundown ISD. The population was 1,283 at the 2020 census, [4] a decrease from 1,397 at the 2010 census.
A sundown town is an all-white community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting the harassment of non-whites.
Vidor, Texas. Categories: Sundown towns in the United States by state. History of racism in Texas.
Sundown Independent School District is a public school district based in Sundown, Texas, United States. In addition to Sundown, the district also serves rural areas in southwestern Hockley County. Sundown ISD has three campuses - Sundown High (Grades 9-12), Sundown Junior High (Grades 6-8), and Sundown Elementary (Grades PK-5). In 2009, the ...
Alvin Morgan received a land grant from the state of Texas prior to 1891. Alvin was a sundown town in the 1930s, where practically no African Americans were allowed to live. [7] In 1960, the city annexed a 100-foot-wide (30 m) 137-mile-long (220 km) stretch of land to protect Alvin from being annexed by other cities.
Texas has been the leading state in petroleum production since discovery of the Spindletop oil field in 1901. [11] As of October 2017, the State of Texas (if treated as its own nation) is the 7th largest oil producing nation in the world, with production totaling approximately 3.78 million barrels (600 thousand cubic meters ) per day of oil ...
A map demonstrating the spread of wildfires across the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma. Lon Tweeten for TIME The Windy Deuce Fire in Moore County, which covers more than 144,000 acres, was 55% ...
48-72284. GNIS feature ID. 2412050 [2] Website. cityofterrell.org. Terrell is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Kaufman County. As of the 2020 census, its population was 17,465. [4] Terrell is located about 32 miles (51 km) east of Dallas.