Any New Towns

[Southern Ray]

City of Alton - Where You Belong

alton-tx.gov

In Response to the Abandoned Properties post, are there any new towns that developed in your area in your life time?

I grew up in a small unincorporated community where farming was the only way of life.
Every acre was spoken for and farmed clear to the fence line. Now many of the parcels are growed up with brush.
Drought conditions and wildlife infestation grew worse in the '70s and most of the kids moved on to other jobs and careers. Me included.
Agriculture built this four county lower part of south Texas with the help of the irrigations districts formed in the early '30s.
Many towns sprang up, most though remain small and unincorporated. The remaining few just got bigger.

Alton, Texas is one town that I thought sprang up in the '80s. I would drive through it in the '70s going to work.
The main road through it was only a two lane paved road with a graveled road in the intersection. Not even a blinking yellow light.
Then it was no more than a beer joint on the crossroads. A railroad track on one side and a cotton gin on the other.
But in reading on their website I read it was formed in the early years as well.

So no new towns have been formed in my area in my lifetime.

 

[stdsch40]

City of Alton - Where You Belong

alton-tx.gov

In Response to the Abandoned Properties post, are there any new towns that developed in your area in your life time?

I grew up in a small unincorporated community where farming was the only way of life.
Every acre was spoken for and farmed clear to the fence line. Now many of the parcels are growed up with brush.
Drought conditions and wildlife infestation grew worse in the '70s and most of the kids moved on to other jobs and careers. Me included.
Agriculture built this four county lower part of south Texas with the help of the irrigations districts formed in the early '30s.
Many towns sprang up, most though remain small and unincorporated. The remaining few just got bigger.

Alton, Texas is one town that I thought sprang up in the '80s. I would drive through it in the '70s going to work.
The main road through it was only a two lane paved road with a graveled road in the intersection. Not even a blinking yellow light.
Then it was no more than a beer joint on the crossroads. A railroad track on one side and a cotton gin on the other.
But in reading on their website I read it was formed in the early years as well.

So no new towns have been formed in my area in my lifetime.

Maybe they'll start building some 15 minute cities/towns. I read somewhere it was a plan by the corporations to have a captive workforce handy.
Another term would be labor camp...

 

[NY 986]

Not a new town but a couple of new school districts. Not shifting of boundaries but honest to goodness population growth.

 

[wjytexas]

People in a couple of subdivisions near me incorporated as a city, San Leanna, in the late "70's to keep Austin from annexing them. Same with the community of Creedmore southeast of Austin.

 

[JOCCO]

I was the abandoned poster. No not around me some small towns disbanded and are now governed by county or state. Going way back some towns or settlements collapsed this was do to mill or industry closing. Some towns separated into two towns like north and south whatever. But again this was not recent.

 

[RobCons]

Good question. I am in central Alabama and cant think of any new ones right off hand. Lots of new subdivisions but no incorporations.

 

[NDIHC]

Lincoln ND became a town sometime in the 70s I think. Just southeast of Bismarck. I lived there in the early/mid 90s. My house was in the older part of town and was built in 1973 or 4.

 

[Welding man]

City of Alton - Where You Belong

alton-tx.gov

In Response to the Abandoned Properties post, are there any new towns that developed in your area in your life time?

I grew up in a small unincorporated community where farming was the only way of life.
Every acre was spoken for and farmed clear to the fence line. Now many of the parcels are growed up with brush.
Drought conditions and wildlife infestation grew worse in the '70s and most of the kids moved on to other jobs and careers. Me included.
Agriculture built this four county lower part of south Texas with the help of the irrigations districts formed in the early '30s.
Many towns sprang up, most though remain small and unincorporated. The remaining few just got bigger.

Alton, Texas is one town that I thought sprang up in the '80s. I would drive through it in the '70s going to work.
The main road through it was only a two lane paved road with a graveled road in the intersection. Not even a blinking yellow light.
Then it was no more than a beer joint on the crossroads. A railroad track on one side and a cotton gin on the other.
But in reading on their website I read it was formed in the early years as well.

So no new towns have been formed in my area in my lifetime.

Just the opposite here I am afraid. One of the oldest towns in the state and used to be one of the richest is giving up it's charter. It lost 2 of it's biggest taxpayers and no longer has the funds to keep operating. It is selling off all it's assets and turning over all it's services over to the county.

 

[showcrop]

My little town is within one hour commute of Boston so we have grown a lot. From 1700 to 6000 in fifty years. Meanwhile a little further north areas that were cleared for pastureing sheep at the time of the civil war have grown back up to 16 inch trees.