Ike, Texas

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Ike, Texas
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 32°24′14″N96°46′12″W / 32.404°N 96.77°W / 32.404; -96.77 Coordinates: 32°24′14″N96°46′12″W / 32.404°N 96.77°W / 32.404; -96.77
Country United States
State Texas
County Ellis
Elevation 502 ft (153 m)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
  Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s) 972
GNIS feature ID 1378479 [1]

Ike is an unincorporated community in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The community is served by Farm to Market Road 878. The nearest city to Ike is Waxahachie.

Ellis County, Texas County in the United States

Ellis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 149,610. The county seat is Waxahachie. The county was founded in 1849 and organized the next year. It is named for Richard Ellis, president of the convention that produced 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. 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.

Waxahachie, Texas City in Texas, United States

Waxahachie is the county seat of Ellis County, Texas, United States, it is located just beyond the southern suburbs of Dallas and is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The population was 29,621 at the 2010 census, with an estimated population of 32,344 in 2014.

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