Brashear is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Hopkins County

Hopkins County, Texas

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, Texas

Texas

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, United States

United States

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. Although it is unincorporated, Brashear has a post office (with the ZIP code of 75420.), church, storages, farm buildings, radio building, and a Self-Service building.

History to Present/Today

Brashear was founded in 1868, and it was named for Joseph Brashear, who surveyed the townsite with settlement and foundation. The area was part of the Wise Ranch in 1898, when G. W. Mahoney bought the ranch, divided it into small farms, laid out the townsite, and donated land for a school, a church, and a cemetery. A post office was established at Brashear in 1899, with W. G. Crain as postmaster. A school opened the same year, and in 1905 it had an enrollment of 149. By 1914 the town had Baptist, Christian, and Methodist churches, a bank, a newspaper, a telegraph connection, and a reported population of 400. Its population was estimated at 300 in the mid-1920s and 350 in the late 1940s. In 1948 the town had six stores, four churches, a two-teacher school, and a cotton gin. The population declined during the 1960s to 280 and continued to be reported at that level in 1990 and 2000. In the late 1980s Brashear had four churches, a factory, a post office, and a number of scattered houses. But couple, few, or some buildings are mainly for farming, and storaging, and it also has two churches that are still open, and KRVA-FM building (licensed to Campbell, Texas). And the post office, and Self-Service building are still in business. But Brashear is mainly 50% unincorporated town, and 50% farming service community.

Demographics

As of 2000, and present, the population is unknown. But from census

Census

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 (according to MCDC and it's Demographic page of Brashear, Texas) of 2000, the population density

Population density

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 was 28.2 people per square mile. And the racial make up of the community was 91.9% White, 0.4% African American, 1.1% Native American, 6.4% from other races

Race (United States Census)

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, and 0.3% two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.6% of the population.

Transportation

Brashear is served by two highways that run through the city, and 3 roads:

• Interstate 30
• State Highway 19
  State Highway 19 (Texas)
  State Highway 19, or SH 19, runs from Huntsville to Paris in east Texas. It is a two-lane freeway near Huntsville.-History:SH 19 was one of the original 26 Texas state highways proposed in 1917. The original proposal was for it to run from the Texas/Oklahoma border north of Paris to Houston. By...
  
  
• Farm-to-Market Road 1567
• Farm-to-Market Road 2653
• Farm to Market Road 275 South

Farming ranch areas

According to most or some maps, especially Google's Google Maps

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; Brashear has 3 farming ranch areas:

• Miller Grove (sometimes to Cumby)
• Greenview
• Divide

Education

Brashear is through 8 School district in the area: Greenville, Commerce, Campbell, Lone Oak, Cumby, Miller Grove, Sulphur Springs and Point.

Colleges and universities near Brashear

Apparently, Brashear is the area of 6 colleges/universities from Commerce, Sulphur Springs, Paris, Mount Pleasant, and Tyler.:

• Texas A&M University-Commerce
• Sulphur Springs Technical
• Paris Junior College
  Paris Junior College
  Paris Junior College, or PJC, was founded in 1924 as a campus of Paris Independent School District in the U.S. state of Texas and currently counts three campuses: Paris, Greenville, and Sulphur Springs with a total enrollment of 4,000 students...
  
  
• Northeast Texas Community College
  Northeast Texas Community College
  Northeast Texas Community College is a community college serving the Northeast Texas region. The campus is set on in rural Titus County near the community of Chapel Hill, approximately seven miles southeast of Mount Pleasant, the county seat....
  
  
• Tyler Junior College
  Tyler Junior College
  Tyler Junior College is a two-year community college in Tyler, Texas, United States. TJC is one of the largest community colleges in Texas, with an enrollment of more than 12,000 credit students each year with an additional 20,000 continuing education enrollments annually. Its West Campus includes...
  
  
• University of Texas at Tyler
  University of Texas at Tyler
  The University of Texas at Tyler, also referred to as UT Tyler, is a coeducational public university located in Tyler, Texas. Founded in 1971, it is a component institution of the University of Texas System....
  
  

Economy

Despite it's a unincorpoated area, Brashear also has one buisness place of Northeast Texas Hydraulics & Machine Shop, located near the historic and shattered downtown of Brashear and the Self-Service Service Building. The post office, KRVA-FM building and farming service are also still work places for those who live in Brashear. But most major buisness are in Greenville, Commerce, Lone Oak, Point, Campbell, Sulphur Springs, Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon, Paris, and Tyler.

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