Westhoff (Texas)

The place is located in DeWitt County Westhoff in the central Texas in the United States of America on Highway 87, 14 miles northwest of Cuero and south of Gonzales (Texas ).

When in 1906 the railway was of Cuero by Stockdale (Texas ) expands, a place built along route, bearing the name Bello until 1909. As a post to come, but the name had to be changed to avoid confusion with the also located in Texas Bells ( Grayson County).

The place was then named after William Westhoff Senior, the founder of the neighboring village Meyer Ville. The town prospered, there were, for example, 4,800 bales of cotton annually processes. In 1913, the town was struck by a catastrophic fire, which destroyed a large part of the city. The population at that time was 475 inhabitants.

The local school was enlarged in 1928 and 1961 and formed in the 1960s, one of the remaining three rural school districts.

Passenger transport by Westhoff was set on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad in 1950.

From 1920 to 1950 Westhoff had about 500 inhabitants, the current population (2000) is about 410 people.

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• Texas Escapes Online on texasescapes.com (English )
• The Handbook of Texas Online at utexas.edu (English )

29.194722222222 - 97.470833333333Koordinaten: 29 ° 12 ' N, 97 ° 28 ' W

• Location in Texas
• DeWitt County ( Texas)
• Place in North America