New Boston
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city in Bowie County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Bowie
- Total
- 4.03 sq mi (10.44 km )
- Land
- 4.00 sq mi (10.36 km )
- Water
- 0.031 sq mi (0.08 km )
- Elevation
- 364 ft (111 m)
- Density
- 1,153/sq mi (445.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Area codes
- 903, 430
- Fips code
- 48-50808
- Website
- www .nbcity .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- New Boston
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Bowie County
- Population
- 4612
- Area
- 8.525726
- Elevation
- 109
- Official website
- www.newbostontx.org
- Image
- BowieCountyCourthouse.jpg
- Households
- 1819
- Dialing code
- 903
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- Commons category
- New Boston, Texas
- postal code
- 75570
- P8168
- Ezhyesyu
- water as percent of area
- 0.0574
- per capita income
- 23832
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
New Boston is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. Boston was named for an early storekeeper in the settlement, W.J. Boston. The coming of the railroads led to the location of two more Bostons. A depot was built approximately 4 miles north of Boston and was named New Boston. The original Boston then became Old Boston. The courthouse was moved to Texarkana in the early 1880s, but a later election carried to move the courthouse back to the geographic center of the county. This location was between the Bostons. The Post Office Department named this location Boston, so Bowie County has claim to three Bostons: New Boston, Boston, and Old Boston. The population was 4,550 at the 2010 census, and 4,612 in 2020.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “New Boston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.