• Carbon
  Carbon, Texas
  Carbon is a town in Eastland County, Texas, United States. The population was 224 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, Carbon has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Cisco
  Cisco, Texas
  Cisco is a city in Eastland County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,851 at the 2000 census.-History:Conrad Hilton started the Hilton Hotel chain with a single hotel bought in Cisco. Hilton came to Cisco to buy a bank, but the bank cost too much; so he purchased the Mobley Hotel in 1919...
  
  
• Desdemona
  Desdemona, Texas
  Desdemona is a former oil boomtown and virtual ghost town located in Eastland County east of Abilene in West Texas. The community is located on Texas State Highway 16 at Farm-to-Market Roads 8 and 2214, approximately twenty miles southeast of the county seat of Eastland and twenty miles west of...
  
  , a ghost town
  Ghost town
  A ghost town is an abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters...
  
  
• Eastland
  Eastland, Texas
  Eastland is a city in Eastland County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,769 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Eastland County.During the 1920s, Eastland, like nearby Cisco, Ranger, and Desdemona, were petroleum boomtowns....
  
  
• Gorman
  Gorman, Texas
  Gorman is a city in Eastland County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,236 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Gorman is located at ....
  
  
• Mangum
  Mangum, Texas
  Mangum was an unincorporated town in Eastland County, Texas, United States. It was founded in the late 1890s and named for the Bob Mangum family. The town's population peaked in 1915 at 125; by 1936, only a handful of residents remained. Some time in the late 1980s, the town was removed from...
  
  
• Olden
  Olden, Texas
  Olden is an unincorporated community in Eastland County, Texas, United States. Although it is unincorporated, Olden has a post office, with the ZIP code of 76466.-External links:...
  
  
• Ranger
  Ranger, Texas
  Ranger is a city in Eastland County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,584 at the 2000 census. Ranger College, a community college, is the second largest employer in the community....
  
  
• Rising Star
  Rising Star, Texas
  Rising Star is a town in Eastland County, Texas, United States. The population was recorded by the 2000 Census as 835.-Geography:Rising Star is located at ....
  
  
• Romney
  Romney, Texas
  Romney is an unincorporated community in Eastland County in the U.S. state of Texas....
  
  

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Eastland County, Texas
• Santa Claus Bank Robbery
  Santa Claus Bank Robbery
  The Santa Claus Bank Robbery occurred on December 23, 1927 in the Central Texas town of Cisco. Marshall Ratliff, dressed as Santa Claus, along with Henry Helms and Robert Hill, all ex-cons, and Louis Davis, a relative of Helms, held up the First National Bank in Cisco. The robbery is one of Texas'...
  
  

External links

• Eastland County government's website
• Eastland County in Handbook of Texas Online at the University of Texas
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  
• Eastland-Callahan County Newspapers