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NOCKENUT,
TEXAS
Texas Ghost Town
Wilson County, South
Texas
FM 1681
South of Seguin
20 miles NE of Floresville
(no photos currently available)
Population: 10 (est 1990)
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History on
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Nockenut dates from 1857 when Polish immigration was spreading out
from Panna
Maria and other Karnes County towns. There was also the occasional
stray German family. The post office opened in 1858. The town had
originally been in Guadalupe County, but there was a boundary change
in 1869 and it became part of Wilson County where it has happily resided
ever since.
The name Hastings was dominate in Nockenut. E. E. Hasting operated
the general store, A. G. Hastings brought the mail from Seguin,
and H. S. Hastings was postmaster. The town was approaching a population
of 100 when the railroad came through and drew people and businesses
away.
It was what demographers call a dispersed rural community as early
as the 1930s.
See Nockenut neighboring ghost towns: Albuquerque
and Union Valley. |
Nockenut
Texas Forum
Dear Editor, I read your story on Union
Valley where it said the population was zero. However, at the
time I was there, about ten years ago, there were still people living
in the town. There may still be. It was not a large population, but
still had a few. Nockenut is nothing but a cemetery now as
is (I think) Mound Creek where John Wesley Hardin's wife Jane is buried.
There is no longer a highway sign pointing the way to Mound Creek,
Sweet
Home in Guadalupe County or several other places. I guess that
makes them officially ghosts. - Hilda Hilpert, October
31, 2007
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