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KNOX
CITY, TEXASKnox
County, Texas Panhandle/North Central Texas
Highways 6, 22, and Farm Road
143
12 Miles S of Benjamin
78
Miles N of Abilene
12 Miles W of Munday
35 Miles W of Seymour
Population
1,396 (2000) |
History in a Pecan
Shell
When the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway announced they
would soon be arriving, the town formed to meet it. The railroad arrived in 1906
and the town was originally called Orient.
The first cotton gin was operating
in 1905. Other essential business sprang up and prior to 1920 the town even had
a grain elevator. In 1916 the town was electrified and water lines were installed
in 1922 (after devastating fires in 1911 and 1919) and it received natural gas
in 1924.
The population was 1,100 in 1940, and in 1950 it reached its high
water mark with 1,800 residents. A tornado hit the town in March 1953, damaging
at least 50 homes, the hospital and killing four. | |
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