Frost (Texas)
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| Foundation : | June 7, 1893 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Texas | ||
| County : | Navarro County | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 5 ′ N , 96 ° 49 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 755 (as of 2018) | ||
| Population density : | 260.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 2.9 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 160 m | ||
| Postal code : | 76641 | ||
| Area code : | +1 903 | ||
| FIPS : | 48-27768 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1336276 | ||
| Mayor : | Scott Dowdle | ||
Frost is a small town with a status of City in Navarro County in the state of Texas in the United States . At the last census in 2010 Frost had 643 inhabitants, for 2018 the population was estimated at 755.
location
Frost is in the west of Navarro County, immediately bordering Hill County in the west and Ellis County in the north, exactly halfway between Hillsboro and Corsicana and 22 miles south of Waxahachie . The Texas State Highway 22 crosses the city from east to west direction, and the Farm-to-Market Road 667 in north-south direction. Neighboring towns and villages are Avalon in the northeast, Blooming Grove in the east, Brushie Prairie and Emmett in the south, Irene in the southwest, Mertens in the west and Italy in the northwest.
history
The town of Forst goes back to a settlement that was founded in 1881 after the construction of a railway line for the St. Louis Southwestern Railway reached what is now the city. The place was named after Samuel L. Frost, a local politician who worked as a lawyer for the railway company. Frost came to Navarro County as a child in the 1840s and settled with his parents in what is now Dresden . Before 1887, a settlement called Cross Roads was located on the site of the present city. On March 17, 1887, a post office was set up in Frost. The Methodist Church was also built in 1887. The following year a school was established in the city. In 1890 Frost received a waterworks so that residents could get their drinking water from Silver Lake to the south.
Also in 1890 a Baptist church service was held for the first time in Frost, at that time still in the local school building. Shortly afterwards the Baptist Church was established. On May 27, 1893, the establishment of the city of Frost was decided by an official resolution, which was approved on June 7, 1893. At the beginning of the 20th century there were six Egrenier machines , a cottonseed oil mill, seven grocery stores, two banks, three pharmacies and several butchers and dry goods stores in Frost . In 1906 the Baptist church was replaced by a new building. Until the 1920s, Frost developed into an important market and trading center for the cotton industry and for the surrounding farms. In 1929 Frost reached its highest population level with 929 inhabitants. On May 6, 1930, a tornado hit the city, killing almost the entire city, killing 22 people and injuring more than 50 others. Because of this, and because of the falling cotton prices as a result of the Great Depression , many residents left the city for Waco or Dallas . The city was rebuilt after the tornado and the new Methodist Church was consecrated on January 19, 1941.
By 1945 the population of Frost fell to 645, at that time there were still 25 businesses in the city. In the following years, the population of Frost continued to decline, until it reached its low of 495 in 1966. Since then, the population has increased again. In January 1948, Frost destroyed the school in a fire. The school was then rebuilt and lessons could be continued almost a year later. In 1980 the Baptist church, which was also destroyed in the tornado, was rebuilt. In 1986 the city had a grocery store, a bank, a haberdashery, a laundry, a lumber yard, two gas stations and five churches, among other things. In 1990, according to the census, 579 residents and eight businesses were recorded for Frost.
Demographics
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1900 | 621 | - | |
| 1910 | 702 | 13% | |
| 1920 | 913 | 30.1% | |
| 1930 | 748 | -18.1% | |
| 1940 | 671 | -10.3% | |
| 1950 | 585 | -12.8% | |
| 1960 | 508 | -13.2% | |
| 1970 | 548 | 7.9% | |
| 1980 | 564 | 2.9% | |
| 1990 | 579 | 2.7% | |
| 2000 | 648 | 11.9% | |
| 2010 | 643 | -0.8% | |
| US Decennial Cens6 | |||
In 2018, the population of Frost was estimated at 755, according to the American Community Survey . There were 263 households and 202 families in the city. Of the population, 83.6 percent were white, 5.7 percent African American , and 0.7 percent Native American; 7.3 percent stated another ancestry and 2.8 percent stated several ancestry. Hispanics or Latinos made up 22.1 percent of the population. 51.7 percent of Frost's residents were male and 48.3 percent were female.
39.9 percent of households had children under the age of 18 living with them, and 43.3 percent of households had people over 60 years of age. In terms of age, the population of Frost was distributed among 27.9 percent minors, 10.5 percent between 18 and 24, 14.3 percent between 25 and 44, 29.7 percent between 45 and 64 and 17.6 percent of the population were 65 years of age old or older. The median age was 38.7 years. In 2018, the median Frost income per household was $ 41,875 and per family was $ 47,778. 24.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line .
education
Frost is the seat of the Frost Independent School District. This includes an elementary school from grades one to six and a high school from grades seven to twelve. In addition to Frost, the school district also includes the neighboring town of Mertens in Hill County and the villages of Emmett and Brushie Prairie and the surrounding unincorporated areas. In the 2018/19 school year, the schools in the school district were attended by a total of 429 students.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tommy Stinger: History of Frost, Texas. Corsicana Sun, March 15, 2008, accessed May 1, 2020.
- ^ A b Mary S. Warren: History of Frost. In: txnavarr.genealogyvillage.com , accessed May 1, 2020.
- ↑ Christopher Long: History of Frost. Texas State Historical Association, accessed May 1, 2020.
- ↑ Frost, Texas, Demographic and Housing Estimates. In: data.census.gov , accessed May 1, 2020.
- ↑ Frost ISD. Texas Tribune, accessed May 1, 2020.