Crockett, Texas
Crockett, Texas Downtown Crockett, Texas Downtown Crockett, Texas Official seal of Crockett, Texas Location of Crockett, Texas Location of Crockett, Texas Crockett is a town/city in Houston County, Texas, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 6,950. It is the fifth earliest town/city and the governmental center of county of Houston County, the earliest county in Texas. Monroe-Crook House in Crockett A family from Tennessee donated the territory for the town and titled it after Crockett, whom they had previously known.
Crockett was connected to Nacogdoches by stage service.
The barns came through in 1872 enabling Crockett to exploit the county's timber resources.
The populace of Crockett increased while most of East Texas declined after World War II.
Blues singer Lightnin' Hopkins was once arrested in Crockett, Texas.
In recent years, the economy of Crockett has period with the assembly of new retail space on Loop 304.
President James Monroe came to Crockett from Virginia.
Wooters Public Library in the same block as the Crockett Presbyterian Church. The Presbyterian Church was established in 1854.
The United States Postal Service operates the Crockett Post Office. The Texas Youth Commission directed the Crockett State School in Crockett. However, the facility closed on or around August 31, 2011 and is no longer in operation. The historic Strode-Pritchett Cabin was positioned to Crockett for the 1976 bicentennial.
At the site is a painting of Davy Crockett by the artist Lucas Short.
Crockett is positioned at 31 19 1 N 95 27 30 W (31.317010, -95.458397). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.9 square miles (23 km2), all land.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.8% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 23.1% from 25 to 44, 19.2% from 45 to 64, and 18.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
Most of The City of Crockett is served by the Crockett Independent School District, although a several acres of the town/city limits are inside the Latexo Independent School District.
Crockett is home to the Jordan School - a private, co-educational institution directed by the small-town Episcopal Church.
Guy Gillette - American photographer who often visited his father-in-law's Porter Place Ranch near Crockett; father of Crockett businessmen and singer Guy Porter Gillette (1945-2013) and William Pipp Gillette (born 1946) Edd Hargett - Former American football quarterback for Texas A&M University who went on to play professionally for the NFL's New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers; lost a race for U.S.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Crockett has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. "Crockett (city), Texas".
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