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MILES, TEXAS

Southwestern Runnels County
US Hwy 67, FM 2872, and
the Santa Fe Railroad
Between Ballinger & San Angelo
NW of Lowake & Paint Rock

Population 850 (2000) 793 (1990)

Photos courtesy Jim and Lou Kinsey of Pottsville, Texas

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Miles, Texas water tower
Water tower in Miles
Rumley oil-pull tractor





1909 Rumley Oil-pull tractor on display in Miles, Texas

High School in Miles

"This town is special to me as I graduated from High School here." Jim Kinsey





US Post office in Miles, Texas
Miles will be celebrating their Centennial in 2005.

Miles, Texas History
Miles was "... named for settler Jonathan Miles, who donated $5,000 for the extension of the railroad from Ballinger to San Antonio...."

- From Handbook of Texas Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/hlm67.html

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