Boston, Texas

For the city in Massachusetts, see Boston.

Boston is an unincorporated community in and the county seat of Bowie County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas–Texarkana, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its two area codes are 430 and 903, its ZIP code is 75570, and it is in the "Central Standard Time" time zone. The town had a population of only 200 in 1990.

History

Boston is situated on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It is located 22 miles west of Texarkana. It is in the central part of Bowie County. When citizens wanted a post office, it applied under the name Center, but that name was already taken. (see Center, Texas). Hood and Glass were also nominated, but rejected for the same reason. In the 1980s the courthouse was built in New Boston, but Boston remained the county seat. The population is 200 as of 2000.^[1]

References

↑ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HLB45

External links

Boston, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Boston, Texas

Municipalities and communities of Bowie County, Texas, United States

County seat: Boston

Cities	DeKalb Hooks Leary Maud Nash New Boston Red Lick Redwater Texarkana Wake Village

Unincorporated communities	Almont Bassett Beaver Dam Burkham Settlement‡ Burns Boston Carbondale Dalby Springs Darden Eylau Hartman Hoot Hubbard Malta Oak Grove Old Boston Simms Spring Hill Sulphur Wamba

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

County seats of Texas

A	Abilene Albany Alice Alpine Amarillo Anahuac Anderson Andrews Angleton Anson Archer City Aspermont Athens Austin

B	Baird Ballinger Bandera Bastrop Bay City Beaumont Beeville Bellville Belton Benjamin Big Lake Big Spring Boerne Bonham Boston Brackettville Brady Breckenridge Brenham Brownfield Brownsville Brownwood Bryan Burnet

C	Caldwell Cameron Canadian Canton Canyon Carrizo Springs Carthage Center Centerville Channing Childress Clarendon Clarksville Claude Cleburne Coldspring Coleman Colorado City Columbus Comanche Conroe Cooper Corpus Christi Corsicana Cotulla Crane Crockett Crosbyton Crowell Crystal City Cuero

D	Daingerfield Dalhart Dallas Decatur Del Rio Denton Dickens Dimmitt Dumas

E	Eagle Pass Eastland Edinburg El Paso Eldorado Emory

F	Fairfield Falfurrias Farwell Floresville Floydada Fort Davis Fort Stockton Fort Worth Franklin Fredericksburg

G	Gail Gainesville Galveston Garden City Gatesville George West Georgetown Giddings Gilmer Glen Rose Goldthwaite Goliad Gonzales Graham Granbury Greenville Groesbeck Groveton Guthrie

H	Hallettsville Hamilton Haskell Hebbronville Hemphill Hempstead Henderson Henrietta Hereford Hillsboro Hondo Houston Huntsville

J	Jacksboro Jasper Jayton Jefferson Johnson City Jourdanton Junction

K	Karnes City Kaufman Kermit Kerrville Kingsville Kountze

L	La Grange Lamesa Lampasas Laredo Leakey Levelland Liberty Linden Lipscomb Littlefield Livingston Llano Lockhart Longview Lubbock Lufkin

M	Madisonville Marfa Marlin Marshall Mason Matador McKinney Memphis Menard Mentone Meridian Mertzon Miami Midland Monahans Montague Morton Mount Pleasant Mount Vernon Muleshoe

N	Nacogdoches New Braunfels Newton

O	Odessa Orange Ozona

P	Paducah Paint Rock Palestine Palo Pinto Pampa Panhandle Paris Pearsall Pecos Perryton Pittsburg Plains Plainview Port Lavaca Post

Q	Quanah Quitman

R	Rankin Raymondville Refugio Richmond Rio Grande City Robert Lee Roby Rockport Rocksprings Rockwall Rusk

S	San Angelo San Antonio San Augustine San Diego San Marcos San Saba Sanderson Sarita Seguin Seminole Seymour Sherman Sierra Blanca Silverton Sinton Snyder Sonora Spearman Stanton Stephenville Sterling City Stinnett Stratford Sulphur Springs Sweetwater

T	Tahoka Throckmorton Tilden Tulia Tyler

U	Uvalde

V	Van Horn Vega Vernon Victoria

W	Waco Waxahachie Weatherford Wellington Wharton Wheeler Wichita Falls Woodville

Z	Zapata

Coordinates: 33°26′29″N 94°25′11″W / 33.44139°N 94.41972°W / 33.44139; -94.41972

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