HEIDENHEIMER, TEXAS

Bell County, Central Texas North

31°01'06"N 97°18'10"W (31.0182372, -97.3027787)
US 190, Hwy 36
13 miles E of Belton the county seat
5 miles SE of Temple
41 miles S of Waco
8 miles NW of Rogers
51 miles NE of Austin
Population: 144 Est. (2010, 2000, 1990)

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The bank that opened in 1914 is still in use – as a gun store.
TE photo, 5-03

History in a Pecan Shell

The town was built near the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe tracks in 1881 and the post office opened the same year. The town was named to honor S. Heidenheimer, director of the railroad.

In 1884 the population was a mere 75 people with only the basic businesses that comprised a proper town. Two years later, the population had risen to 225 and a newspaper was included in the town’s businesses.

The town reached its zenith of 250 people in 1925, but by 1948 it had lost fully half of that. The railroad is still the most active area of town – with grain elevators and a working gin.

Heidenheimer, Texas grain elevators and railroad tracks

Grain storage in Heidenheimer
TE photo, 5-03

Heidenheimer, Texas Chronicles

Temple's International Man of Mystery by Clay Coppedge

Arthur Buford Crouch was an unlikely felon, a local boy from a long line of local men and women, a descendant of Bell County pioneers, born and reared near the tiny farming community of Heidenheimer five miles south of Temple... more

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