Shelbyville, Texas

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Shelbyville is a as a non-independent, the County as a Census-designated Place co-administered village in Shelby County , East Texas . It is located about ten kilometers southeast of the district capital Center on State Highway 87 . The town, originally named Nashville, temporarily served as the county seat in the first half of the 19th century . In the 1840s he was the main location of the Regulator-Moderator Wars - a feud between two warring settler factions that is considered to be the bloodiest in Texan history. The current population is around 200.

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The landscape of Shelbyville lies in the southeastern center of Shelby County - only a few kilometers away from the Sabine National Forest , which occupies the eastern half of the county up to the Sabine River, which is dammed up at the height of the Toledo Bend Reservoir . The surrounding landscape is flat to gently hilly; Forest cover , arable land and pastures alternate. The average height is just over 100 meters above sea level. The climate is humid and mild; the average temperatures range from 34 ° C in July to +1 ° C in January . The average annual rainfall is 127 centimeters. Important connecting roads to the region are - in addition to State Highway 87 - the three Farm-to-Market Roads 417, 2694 and 2140 . The distance to the closest Texas regional centers Nacogdoches and Lufkin is 60 and 80 kilometers, respectively, and the distance to the east Texas metropolis of Houston is almost 300.

The settlement was founded in the 1820s. Settled preferably by immigrants from Tennessee , it was first called Nashville. In 1837 it was renamed Shelbyville - after the Revolutionary War participant and later governor of Kentucky , Isaac Shelby. At the beginning of the 1840s, Shelbyville and the surrounding area were the main scene of the so-called Regulator Moderator Wars - a conflict in which two warring groups of vigilantes tried to usurp power in the region. In 1843 a post office was established. In 1863, an armed contingent of county residents forcibly moved the county's registry books to Center, which has since served as the county seat .

In 1884 Shelbyville had a school, a church, two flour mills, and two cotton mills . The population at that time was estimated to be 150. By 1914, the population had doubled, also estimated. In the 1920s it continued to grow to a zenith of around 600 in 1929. By 1933 - the height of the Great Depression - it had reduced to 300; around the middle of the century it increased again. In 1949 it reached 550 inhabitants, after which it slowly fell to its current level of around 200.

Today Shelbyville is a remote patch on the edge of the Sabine National Forest. In 2000 the place had 38 shops. In terms of infrastructure, Shelbyville is the seat of the Independent School District of the same name , which also covers the northeastern quarter of the county. The population of the Unified School District Shelbyville is 3,552, according to statisticalatlas.com . Cita-Data.com has a similar value (3,415 inhabitants 2007) and thus also relates to the wider area. Noteworthy information there is the high median age of 40.7 years, which is more than 8 years above the Texan average.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Shelbyville, TX . Cecil Harper, Jr., Texas State Historical Association, June 15, 2010 (Eng)
  2. ↑ Overview of Shelbyville Independent School District, Texas (Unified School District) . statisticalatlas.com, accessed November 30, 2018
  3. ^ Shelbyville, Texas . City-Data.com, accessed on November 30, 2018 (Engl.)

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