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Normangee’s post office opened in 1906, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Normangee began

When was Normangee founded?

1906

The Normangee post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1907. Another post office, Rogers Prairie (1874), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 495120 years
Founding year: the first Normangee post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1907.The full story ↓

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How Normangee came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Normangee.

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The railroads were pushing the frontier westward and the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway (T&BV) and the Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC) were built between Houston and Dallas in 1904–1905, but the railways passed through Robert Rogers' land, approximately two miles west of Rogers Prairie. So on January 26, 1907, S.B. Phillips filed for record a plat of the new town, Normangee, located in the southwestern corner of the Robert Rogers land grant at the junction of the Old San Antonio Road and the two new railroads. When the H&TC was being built through this region, railroad officials placed a town every eight miles. A small community, known as Rogers Prairie, existed two miles east of where the railroad line was built. Norman G. Kittrell was the county judge of Leon County at the time. The railroad named the new town after Judge Kittrell. Since there was already a Norman, Oklah…

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Timeline

Normangee, 1874 to 1986

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1874Post officeThe Rogers Prairie post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1906Post officeThe Rogers Prairie post office closes
  5. 1906Post officeThe Normangee post office opens
  6. 1986Born hereJoseph Jones is born here
By decade

Normangee, decade by decade

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El Camino Real Texas Centennial Monument2018El Camino Real Texas Centennial MonumentNormangee, Texas sign2016Normangee, Texas signFM39 South Sign2014FM39 South SignFM3 North2014FM3 NorthTXMap-doton-Normangee2004TXMap-doton-Normangee
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Normangee’s post office has been open since 1906. Another post office, Rogers Prairie, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Rogers Prairie
1874–1906
Normangee
1906–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 Normangee’s history

What year was Normangee founded?

The Normangee post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1907.

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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 (5), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.