Fannin County Electric Cooperative, Inc is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Bonham, Texas.
A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity, water or telecommunications to its members. Profits are either reinvested for infrastructure or distributed to members in the form of "patronage" or "capital credits", which are dividends paid on a member's investment in the cooperative.
Bonham is a city in Fannin County, Texas, United States. The population was 10,127 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Fannin County. James Bonham sought the aid of James Fannin at the Battle of the Alamo.
The Cooperative was organized in 1937.
The Cooperative serves portions of five counties in the state of Texas, in a territory generally surrounding Bonham.
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.
Currently the Cooperative has 1,829 miles of line and 837,664 meters.
Fannin County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 33,915. The county seat is Bonham. The county was named for James Fannin, who commanded the group of Texans killed in the Goliad Massacre during the Texas Revolution. {James Bonham sought Fannin's assistance for the Battle of the Alamo .}
Savoy is a city in Fannin County, Texas, United States. The population was 831 at the 2010 census.
State Highway 121 is a state highway angling from southwest to northeast through north central Texas. It runs from downtown Fort Worth, Texas at the junction of Interstate 35W to Bonham, Texas, just north of a junction with U.S. Highway 82.
James Walker Fannin Jr. was a 19th-century American military figure in the Texas Army and leader during the Texas Revolution of 1835–36. After being outnumbered and surrendering to Mexican forces at the Battle of Coleto Creek, Colonel Fannin and nearly all his 344 men were executed soon afterward at Goliad, Texas, under Santa Anna's orders for all rebels to be executed.
James Bonham was a 19th-century American soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. He was a second cousin of Travis and was a messenger of the Battle of the Alamo. His younger brother, Milledge Luke Bonham, was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, and served as Governor of South Carolina from 1862 to 1864.
State Highway 56 (SH 56) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas that runs through Grayson and Fannin counties in North Central Texas. This highway was designated in 1974 to replace U.S. Highway 82 (US 82) when it was rerouted north of Whitesboro and Sherman. SH 56 has been extended further since then as the US 82 bypass continued to be extended north of Bonham and Honey Grove.
The Texoma Council of Governments (TCOG) is a voluntary association of cities, counties and special districts in North Texas.
Farmers Electric Cooperative is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Greenville, Texas with offices in Wylie and Sulphur Springs.
Ivanhoe is an unincorporated community in Fannin County, Texas, United States. It is located 10 miles (16 km) north of Bonham, the Fannin County seat.
Telephone is an unincorporated community in Fannin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 210 in 2010.
Warren was a town in present-day Fannin County, Texas, United States, the site of Fort Warren in the early 19th century. It lay near the border with Grayson County on the Red River. Warren was the county seat of Fannin County when that county was established in 1837. However, when the county seat was moved to Bonham in 1843, Warren began a period of decline. It served as a logistical station for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, but was bypassed by the railroad after the war. As a result it eventually became uninhabited; its post office closed in 1876.
KFYN is an American radio station broadcasting an 80's classic country music format. Licensed to Bonham, Texas, United States, the station serves Fannin County. The station is currently owned by Vision Media Group, Inc., and features local programming in addition to some programming from TSN, USRN, And Cumulus. The station also provides extensive local news of the Fannin County area of Texoma. KFYN also rebroadcasts KXII News @6 weekdays.
Musically KFYN focuses on Country Music from the 1980s and 1990s.
The Sam Rayburn House Museum is a historic house museum at 890 West Texas State Highway 56 in Bonham, Fannin, Texas. Built in 1916, it was home to Sam Rayburn (1882-1961), a famously effective Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Since 1972, it has been operated as a museum and state historic site by the Texas Historical Commission.
Bonham State Park is a 261-acre (1.06 km2) state park located in Bonham, Texas. It includes a 65-acre (260,000 m2) lake, rolling prairies, and woodlands.
The Texas Northeastern Railroad is a Class III railroad operating in the United States state of Texas that began operations in 1990. It consists of 104 miles (167 km) of track on two lines.
The Fannin County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas. Built in 1888-1889 of rough-cut local limestone from Gober by Scottish-born stonemasons Kane and Cormack, it was designed in the Second Empire style of architecture by Waco-based architect Wesley Clark Dodson (1829–1914) of the firm Dodson and Dudley. As built it was similar in appearance to the Hood County Courthouse Dodson designed shortly after it. Its central clock tower and elaborate mansard roof were destroyed by fire on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1929, and were replaced by a flat roof. In 1965 the courthouse was modernized, the remaining roof pediments were removed and the exterior was covered with a smooth surface of what is called Lueders stone or Lueders limestone, so that it now appears to be a Moderne or rather plain Art Deco building.
Bonham High School is a public high school located in Bonham, Texas (USA) and classified as a 3A school by the UIL. It is part of the Bonham Independent School District which encompasses central Fannin County. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.
Duplex is an unincorporated community in Fannin County, Texas, United States. Duplex is located on Farm to Market Road 273 15 miles (24 km) north of Bonham. Duplex was founded in the 1880s and named for two families who had settled the area in the 1850s. The community had a post office from 1899 to 1909; it also had two segregated schools. As of 2000, Duplex had a population of 25.