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WEINERT,
TEXASHaskell County,
Panhandle / North Central Texas
Highway 277 and FM 617
16 miles N of Haskell
72 miles N of Abilene
Population 177 (2000)
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History in a Pecan
Shell
It was named for Senator Ferdinand C. Weinert of Seguin.
The area was in the Ferris Ranch in the 1880s and afterward, and no town existed
before the Wichita Valley Railroad built through in 1906. In 1909 Weinert was
hit hard by a storm, and a fire burned out a block of businesses a year later.
In spite of these and other storms and fires Weinert had a population of 510 and
fifteen businesses in 1940. Changes in agricultural patterns and transportation
reduced Weinert more effectively than storm and fire. The local population had
dwindled to 253 by 1980.
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