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ACALA, TEXAS
Hudspeth County,
West Texas
On the Rio Grande and State Highway 20
34 miles NW of Sierra
Blanca
54 miles SE of El Paso
Population: 25
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Downtown
Acala
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone |
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History in
a Cotton Boll
Named after the Spanish name for a type of cotton, Acala's history
is mainly its population. According to the Handbook of Texas,
a post office was opened in the 1920s and 1927 saw 50 Acalans calling
it home. In the boom-bust year of 1929 the town reached its high-water
mark of 100.
The Great Depression reduced the town to a mere ten persons before
rebounding to 75 by the decade's end.
In the late fifties it regained its record population of 100 but
a slow decline set in and by 1975 it was back down to 25 which is
the last figure available.
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