TOWNS
Thirteen living communities — incorporated cities and unincorporated settlements — spread across 930 square miles of North Texas between the Red River and the Cross Timbers.
Largest city in Montague County. Founded as a Fort Worth & Denver construction camp in 1882 — a second railroad (Rock Island) followed in 1893 — Bowie is the county's regional hub for grocery, hardware, and healthcare, and home to the Guinness-certified World's Largest Bowie Knife.
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Founded 1887 when rancher D.C. Jordan donated land along the Gainesville, Henrietta & Western line — the town was named Nocona at a Texas Ranger's suggestion, honoring Comanche chief Peta Nocona. Home to Nokona baseball gloves, still handcrafted in-town, and Enid Justin's Nocona Boot Company legacy, with Lake Nocona nearby.
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The last supply stop on the Chisholm Trail before the Red River crossing into Indian Territory. The 1873 Stonewall Saloon — the town's first permanent structure — still stands on the historic square, now operated as a museum; the modern Red River Station concert venue carries on the town's role as a gathering place.
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A Butterfield Overland Mail relay station operated near present-day Sunset as early as 1858, making it one of the county's earliest transportation nodes. Permanent settlement followed in 1870; the post office opened in 1880. Sunset incorporated as a city in 1884 and disincorporated April 19, 2007.
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County seat of Montague County since 1858. Pop. 261 — one of Texas's least-populated county seats. Home of the 1913 Montague County Courthouse, a Classical Revival landmark, and the 1927 Old Jail Museum, both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Unincorporated community settled in the 1850s in the live oak groves of southeastern Montague County, with a post office established in 1876. Home to the county's first school (1858) and the annual Watermelon Festival, held every summer since 1980.
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Unincorporated ghost town in the northwestern corner of the county, about 15 miles from the county seat. A booming railroad stop in the 1890s and part of the Saint Jo–Belcherville orchard belt, Belcherville dwindled after the railroad declined and the orchards were reduced; a small number of residents remain.
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Unincorporated community at a bend of the Red River in the extreme northeastern corner of Montague County. Settled in 1862 by families from Illinois, the community was nearly depopulated by a December 1863 Kiowa and Comanche raid — approximately 250 warriors, at least 12 settlers killed — the defining frontier event in county history.
View →A gated lakeside community on the east shore of Lake Nocona, established in 1971 around an 18-hole golf course, a private grass airstrip, and roughly 500 home sites.
View →A small unincorporated community in northern Montague County on US-81 and US-82, about five miles south of the Red River. Founded in 1892 as a railroad market town near the historic Chisholm Trail crossing at Red River Station.
View →Unincorporated community in west-central Montague County, 15 miles west of the county seat. The townsite dates to 1893 when the Chicago, Rock Island and Texas Railway arrived; the broader settlement goes back to the early 1870s.
View →Small unincorporated crossroads community northeast of Bowie, at the junction of FM 1956 and FM 677. Named for local figure E. G. (Cap) Adams, who gave the corner filling station its identity. Established around 1925.
View →An unincorporated farming community on FM 1815, nine miles northeast of Montague. Founded in 1886 when the Gainesville, Henrietta and Western Railway pushed through northern Montague County; the tracks were pulled in 1971.
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