Valley View, Texas Valley View, Texas Location of Valley View, Texas Location of Valley View, Texas Valley View is a town/city in Cooke County, Texas, United States.
Lee plotted a town on his territory in 1872, naming it "Valley View", presumably for the view offered at the site of Spring Creek valley.
Valley View had four church buildings and a hotel by 1890, and the Valley View Independent School District was incorporated in 1902.
In 1903 the town witnessed dramatic expansion with the culmination of a two-story brick school home and six brick company buildings, the arrival of telephone service, and the opening of a bank.
The following year the Valley View News began publishing weekly.
Valley View Square Valley View's populace was estimated at 700 from the 1920s through the mid-1960s.
When Valley View formally incorporated in 1980, it had 514 inhabitants and six businesses.
House of Representatives from 1916 40 and later Chief Judge of the federal Court of Claims, was born in Valley View.
Valley View is positioned in southern Cooke County at 33 29 37 N 97 9 52 W (33.493656, -97.164403). Interstate 35/U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Valley View has a total region of 3.6 square miles (9.2 km2), of which 0.004 square miles (0.01 km2), or 0.13%, is water. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Valley View has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. In the town, the populace was spread out with 29.7% younger than the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 10.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 7.9% of families and 10.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 14.4% of those younger than age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or older.
Valley View is served by the Valley View Independent School District.
Local schools such as John's Branch, Lone Oak, Elm Grove, Lois, Burns City and Mountain Springs became part of the Valley View ISD.
The town/city is a Type A general law city, and is served by a volunteer mayor and five aldermen.
The town/city employs a municipal judge, town/city secretary, city/municipal court clerk, police officer, and town/city attorney.
The town/city is in negotiations with Bolivar Water Supply Company to purchase the utilities in the town/city limits.
The city's extraterritorial jurisdiction is half a mile outside the town/city limits.
The Valley View Area Chamber of Commerce was organized in 1997.
There are two restaurants in Valley View: Lil' Brick Oven (Pizza), and a Dairy Queen franchise.
Six churches are inside the town/city limits of Valley View: First Baptist Church (Southern Baptist), Church of Christ (churches of Christ), Cornerstone Baptist Church (Southern Baptist), St.
Keep Valley View Beautiful was titled first-place winner in the 2006 Governor's Community Achievement Awards and received $60,000.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Valley View city, Texas".
Climate Summary for Valley View, Texas "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"City of Valley View | Valley View, TX".
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