Texas
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Panhandle
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1940 | 2622 | 2622 | 0 | 0 | ||||
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| 1970 | 8333 | 8228 | 80 | 14 | 1 | 10 | 13 | |
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| 2000 | 12875 | 11372 | 247 | 269 | 69 | 1382 | 918 | 75 |
| 2010 | 13303 | 11770 | 313 | 243 | 91 | 2088 | 886 | 87 |
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Several residents, including two students at West Texas State College (now West Texas A&M University), remember seeing sundown signs.