Easterly, Texas

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Coordinates: 31°06′20″N96°23′03″W / 31.10556°N 96.38417°W / 31.10556; -96.38417 Coordinates: 31°06′20″N96°23′03″W / 31.10556°N 96.38417°W / 31.10556; -96.38417
Country United States
State Texas
County Robertson
Elevation 387 ft (118 m)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s) 979
GNIS feature ID 1356768 [1]

Easterly is an unincorporated community in Robertson County, Texas, United States. Easterly is located on U.S. Route 79 northeast of Franklin.

Robertson County, Texas County in the United States

Robertson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 16,622. Its county seat is Franklin. The county was created in 1837 and organized the following year. It is named for Sterling C. Robertson, an early settler who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.

Texas State of the United States of America

Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population, right behind Alaska. Geographically located in the South Central region of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, while the Gulf of Mexico is to the southeast.

U.S. Route 79 highway in the United States

U.S. Route 79 is a United States highway. The route is officially considered and labeled as a north-south highway, but it is actually more of a diagonal northeast-southwest highway. The highway's northern/eastern terminus is in Russellville, Kentucky, at an intersection with U.S. Highway 68 and KY 80. Its southern/western terminus is in Round Rock, Texas, at an intersection with Interstate 35, ten miles (16 km) north of Austin.

History

Easterly was settled in the 1870s under the name Acorn. Its first residents were former residents of Lake Station who left the community because of its frequent fever epidemics. A post office opened in Acorn in 1881; Dan Easterly, Sr., was the first postmaster. This first post office closed in 1891. The community's name was changed to Easterly when the International-Great Northern Railroad opened a station there. A new post office opened in Easterly in 1894; the first postmaster of that post office was Dan J. Easterly. The community's population peaked at 700 in 1914. Easterly began to decline after World War I, and by 2000, the population had decreased to 61. [2]

World War I 1914–1918 global war originating in Europe

World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. It is also one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, while resulting genocides and the 1918 influenza pandemic caused another 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide.

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References

  1. ↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  2. ↑ "Easterly, Texas". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 4 July 2009.


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