Pettibone, Texas | |
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  Pettibone, Texas  Pettibone, Texas | |
| Coordinates: 30°51′00″N97°04′51″W / 30.85000°N 97.08083°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Texas |
| County | Milam |
| Elevation | 502 ft (153 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 254 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1380348 [1] |
Pettibone is an unincorporated community in Milam County, Texas, United States. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 25 in 2000.
Pettibone was a flag stop on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, which built a track through the area in 1881. It was subsequently named for a railroad official. Its population was 30 in 1933 then went down to 25 from 1990 through 2000. [2]
Pettibone is located on U.S. Highway 190, 5 mi (8.0 km) west of Cameron, 20 mi (32 km) northwest of Rockdale, and 27 mi (43 km) southeast of Temple in west-central Milam County. [3]
It is also on Texas State Highway 36 and Farm to Market Road 486.
Today, the community is served by the Cameron Independent School District.
Milam County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 24,754. The county seat is Cameron. The county was created in 1834 as a municipality in Mexico and organized as a county in 1837. Milam County is named for Benjamin Rush Milam, an early settler and a soldier in the Texas Revolution.
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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