Cisco, Texas Cisco, Texas Location of Cisco, Texas Location of Cisco, Texas Cisco is a town/city in Eastland County, Texas, United States.
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In 1881 the Houston and Texas Central Railway crossed the Texas and Pacific, which had come through the year before, at a point near Red Gap, and the settlement's inhabitants moved their town to the crossing.
Three years later the town was officially recognized and a new postal service granted; the town's name was changed to "Cisco" for John A.
Cisco, a New York financier largely responsible for the building of the Houston and Texas Central.
Railroads continued to influence the evolution of Cisco as the Texas and Pacific acquired lots in the town and sold them to immigrants thriving by brochures touting the town as the "Gate City of the West".
By 1892 Cisco was a burgeoning improve with two newspapers, a bank, and an economy based on trade, ranching, fruit farming, and the limestone, coal, and iron ore available nearby.
In 1893 a tornado hit Cisco, killing 28 citizens and destroying or damaging most of its homes and businesses.
Conrad Hilton started the Hilton Hotel chain with a single hotel bought in Cisco.
Hilton came to Cisco to buy a bank, but the bank cost too much; so he purchased the Mobley Hotel in 1919.
During the 1920s, Cisco, like close-by Ranger, Eastland, and Desdemona, was a oil boomtown. Although Cisco played a mostly minor part in the Eastland County petroleum boom of 1919 21, its populace interval quickly at the time, with some estimates as high as 15,000; in the wake of the boom, Cisco adopted a town/city charter and assembled a new barns station that cost $25,000, a value of $310,597.88 in 2015.
In 1925, the first annual meeting of the West Texas Historical Association was held in Cisco.
The Santa Claus Bank Robbery occurred in Cisco on December 23, 1927, when Marshall Ratliff and his gang attempted to rob the First National Bank.
As of August 2009, the bank site is occupied by an auto parts store, with a Texas Historical Commission sign commemorating the event. In the 1920s the Williamson Dam was assembled north of town, resulting in the formation of Lake Cisco.
Cisco is positioned in northwestern Eastland County at 32 23 5 N 98 58 53 W (32.384762, -98.981265). Interstate 20 passes through the south side of the city, dominant west 45 miles (72 km) to Abilene and east 105 miles (169 km) to Fort Worth.
Access to Cisco is from Exits 330 and 332.
Route 183 passes through the center of Cisco, dominant north 28 miles (45 km) to Breckenridge and south 49 miles (79 km) to Brownwood.
Texas State Highway 6 also passes through the center of town, dominant east 10 miles (16 km) to Eastland, the county seat, and northwest 33 miles (53 km) to Albany.
Texas State Highway 206 leaves Cisco to the southwest, dominant 22 miles (35 km) to Cross Plains.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.9 square miles (12.8 km2), of which 2.216 acres (8,966 m2), or 0.07%, is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 13.4% from 18 to 24, 21.7% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 19.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
Cisco is served by the Cisco Independent School District.
The Cisco High School football team (Loboes) won the 2 - A Div ll championship game against Refugio High School (Bobcats) at Dallas Cowboys AT&T Stadium in Arlington on December 19, 2013.
The championship was Cisco's first.
The mascot for Cisco High School is the Loboes, proudly misspelled for decades, and their colors are black and gold.
Cisco College, an affordable, two-year college, was established in Cisco in 1940.
Downtown Cisco a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Cisco city, Texas".
Hilton, Conrad Nicholson (Texas State Historical Association) Cisco, Texas in the Handbook of Texas (Texas State Historical Association) "Ernest Wallace, "West Texas Historical Association"".
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