Hawkinsville, Texas

Hawkinsville, Texas
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 28°53′16″N95°40′11″W / 28.88778°N 95.66972°W / 28.88778; -95.66972
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Matagorda
Founded	1908
Elevation [1]	16 ft (5 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Zip code	77414
Area code	361
GNIS feature ID	1379577 [1]

Hawkinsville is an unincorporated community in Matagorda County, Texas, United States. ^[1]

Description

In 2018, there were a few homes nearby, several businesses one mile (1.6 km) to the south, and the name appeared on maps, but one source refers to the place in the past tense, while a second source states that the town disappeared in the 1950s. The town site is between Cedar Lane and Sargent.

Geography

Hawkinsville is located in southeast Matagorda County, 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Van Vleck. ^[2] The historic site of Hawkinsville is on FM 457 1.0 mile (1.6 km) north of its intersection with FM 2611. A bend of Caney Creek comes near FM 457 at the location. ^[3] A single home can be seen near the historic location. ^[4]

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  Historic site of Hawkinsville is on FM 457 about 1 mile north of FM 2611. Caney Creek is on the right.
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  Hawkinsville Market sign is at the intersection of FM 457 and FM 2611 farther south.

History

The town was named in honor of James Boyd Hawkins, a planter from North Carolina who established the Hawkins Ranch, a cotton and sugarcane plantation, later a cattle ranch, in Matagorda County. ^[5]

Education

Van Vleck Independent School District operates schools in the area.

The designated community college for Van Vleck ISD is Wharton County Junior College. ^[6]

See also

• Texas portal

• List of unincorporated communities in Texas

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Haskinsville
2. Jenkins 2010.
3. "Hawkinsville, Texas" (Map). Google Maps . Retrieved August 31, 2018.
4. See photo.
5. Lewis 1979, pp. 6–8.
6. Texas Education Code Sec. 130.211. WHARTON COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.

Additional reading

• Lewis, Frank Hawkins (February 1979). "Evolution of an Early Texas Ranch". Rangelands. 1 (1): 6–8. JSTOR   3900331.
• ‹See TfM› Jenkins, Rachel: Hawkinsville, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online(August 31, 2010). Retrieved August 7, 2018.
• Troesser, John; Troesser, Kate Wong (2009). "HAWKINSVILLE, TEXAS". Texas Escapes. Retrieved August 31, 2018.

External links

Media related to Hawkinsville, Texas at Wikimedia Commons