Cotton Center, Texas

Cotton Center, Texas
Unincorporated community
Tower holding water from the Ogallala Aquifer
Cotton Center
Coordinates:
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Hale
Region	Llano Estacado
Established	1925
Elevation	3,474 ft (1,059 m)
Population (2000)
• Total	174
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
ZIP code	79021
Area code	806
Website	Handbook of Texas

Cotton Center is an unincorporated community in western Hale County, Texas, United States, located approximately 12 miles southwest of Hale Center. Until the late 19th century the Comanche tribe of Native-Americans occupied the area. In 1907, with the coming of a branch of the Santa Fe Railroad, a number of farming operations were established. Cotton Center was originally created in 1925 as a consolidated school district, with a small unincorporated community site, containing the school, cotton gins and various businesses to support the surrounding farms. In 1935 a local post office opened, and the first irrigation well was drilled. By the late 1940s irrigation wells proliferated, pumping water from the Ogallala Aquifer. The community revolves around farming and is tied together by the school, which as of 2005 had 140 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12.

Cotton Center has remained stable, population wise, for the past 10 years.

Education

The community of Cotton Center is served by the Cotton Center Independent School District and home to the Cotton Center High School Elks.

See also

• Spade Ranch (Texas)
• Llano Estacado
• Blackwater Draw
• Yellow House Draw

External links

• Cotton Center, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online
• Cotton Center ISD
• Mary L. Cox, History of Hale County, Texas (Plainview, Texas, 1937)
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cotton Center, Texas
• Photos of the Llano Estacado