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New Deal dates to 1909

Most of New Deal was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 1980.

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How New Deal began

When was New Deal founded?

1909

New Deal dates its founding to 1909 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1980.

First census: 637 in 19802020 census: 730117 years
Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1910.The full story ↓

What stands out about New Deal’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of New Deal are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Deal’s history is told.

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The story

How New Deal came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of New Deal.

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New Deal was originally known as Monroe, named for Monroe G. Abernathy, a local landowner. The town was originally developed as a train station loading site. People began to settle there and that is why the town was built alongside the railroad tracks and highway. The train identification name for the township still reads Monroe alongside the railroad tracks. Some time afterward the town wanted a post office and requested the permit for the Monroe Postal Station. Because there was already a town in Texas with the name Monroe City, the U.S. postal department changed the name of the town to New Deal after Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs and to go along with the consolidated school system's name. This information was all developed when the school system had to write a history when applying for a federal grant. In 1970, the township was incorporated by the vote of its citizens. The city of…

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Timeline

New Deal, 1909 to 1956

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1909
    FoundingNew Deal is established
  3. 1910Post officeThe Monroe post office opens
  4. 1910Post officeThe Monroe post office closes
  5. 1949Post officeThe New Deal post office opens
  6. 1956On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

New Deal, decade by decade

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On the map

New Deal on the map, 1956 to 1970

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New Deal. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

New Deal on the 1956 USGS mapNew Deal on the 1970 USGS map1956New Deal sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of New Deal.

People over time

New Deal, census by census

0200400600800198020002020Peak: 794

Between 521 and 794 people in every census since 1980.

5 censuses, 1980–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on New Deal’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to New Deal

Nobody well known was born in New Deal itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Buddy HollyAmerican rock and roll singer · b. 1936
Chace CrawfordAmerican actor · b. 1985
Waylon JenningsAmerican country musician · b. 1937
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Conrad VernonAmerican film and television director, storyboa… · b. 1968
Trae YoungAmerican basketball player · b. 1998
Natalie MainesAmerican singer; lead vocalist for Dixie Chicks · b. 1974
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

New Deal’s post office has been open since 1949. Another post office, Monroe, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Monroe
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New Deal
1949–today
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about New Deal’s history

What year was New Deal founded?

In 1909, according to Wikidata. New Deal’s post office opened in 1910, and the census of 1980 counted 637 people here.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.