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Clarksville City, Texas

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Gladewater and taxed more. A movement to incorporate, spearheaded by several oil companies and the L. W. Pelphrey Company, a general contractor specializing in oilfield construction, culminated in a vote to establish Clarksville City on September 14, 1956. Pelphrey was elected mayor and served until his death in August 1961. The bypassed portion of Old Highway 80 is named Pelphrey Drive in his honor.
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had 720 residents and twenty businesses. In 2000 the population was 806. The town has an elected mayor and council with a city manager form of government. The city hall was built in 1962 and doubled in size in 1991. A Texas historical marker for the old community of Point Pleasant is at the city hall.
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stop at the home of William W. Walters, which was later owned and operated by Warren P. Victory. Though first known as "Gilead", the post office was named "Point Pleasant" in 1852. It closed in 1867. The community withered when the railroad bypassed it in 1873 and Gladewater was established. With the
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in 1930, so many homes, businesses, and oil-company camps and offices sprang up along the highway that it was called the Main Street of Texas, and street numbers were designated from Longview to Gladewater. The area around George W. Clark's home on the site of the old stagecoach stop became known as
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The population dwindled as drilling reached the state allowable and producing wells became automated. Cities Service Oil Company closed its office and camp in the early 1960s, and Sun Oil Company soon followed. After a population low of 359 in the 1960s, growth was steady. In 1990 Clarksville City
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After extensive paving projects and other civic improvements in the 1940s and the construction of Lake Gladewater in 1952, the nearby city of Gladewater had a high tax rate and was extending its boundaries. Industrialists in the area to the east became alarmed at the prospect of being taken into
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of 2010, there were 865 people living in the city. The population density was 127.9 inhabitants per square mile (49.4/km). There were 337 housing units at an average density of 53.5 per square mile (20.7/km). The racial makeup of the city was 92.56%
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of any race were 1.36% of the population. In 2020, its population was 780; the racial makeup of the city following the
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to the east. Lake Deverina on Campbell Creek is in the southern part of Clarksville City.
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Clarksville City, Texas
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The first settlers arrived in the area before 1845. There was a
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Clarksville City is located in northwestern Gregg County along
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City of Clarksville City – TML City Officials Directory
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Clarksville, Texas
City
Location of Clarksville City, Texas

32°31′59″N 94°53′40″W / 32.53306°N 94.89444°W / 32.53306; -94.89444
Country
United States
State
Texas
Counties
Gregg
Upshur
Time zone
UTC-6
Central (CST)
DST
UTC-5
ZIP code
Area code(s)
430, 903
FIPS code
GNIS
Gregg
Upshur
U.S. state
Texas
2020 census
stagecoach
East Texas Oil Field
U.S. Route 80

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