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Dell City is a city in Hudspeth County, Texas. The population was 365 at the time of the 2010 census, down from 413 at the time of the 2000 census. It is near the former location of Paulville, a failed Ron Paul-inspired Libertarian cooperative and planned community.

It was incorporated in 1948, shortly after the discovery of an underground water supply by oil prospectors, which attracted farmers to the area. Its name is a reference to the nursery rhyme “The Farmer in the Dell.”

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History

Dell City was established in 1948, as an aquifer had been found in the area. Settlers came from other areas of Texas and New Mexico. It developed into being a farming town. The community had about 500 people in the 1950s.

In 2012, Jeanne Catsoulis of The New York Times described Dell City as “a borderline ghost town”. In 2014, there were 336 people, according to the United States Census Bureau, with 50 being the average age. In 2016, Jessica Onsurez wrote that residents in the town, which had a decline in the number of businesses, are divided over whether the town is “dying”, in her words, or whether it will rebound. Residents rejected proposals to establish a prison and a manufacturing plant.

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Geography

Dell City is located in northeastern Hudspeth County at 31°56′7″N 105°12′1″W / 31.93528°N 105.20028°W / 31.93528; -105.20028 (31.935324, –105.200298), in West Texas. It is 13 miles (21 km) north of U.S. Routes 62 and 180, and 4 miles (6 km) south of the New Mexico state line. The Guadalupe Mountains are visible to the east.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.3 km), all of it land.

It is about 90 miles (140 km) from El Paso, which is west of Dell City. Carlsbad, New Mexico, to the northeast, is 90 miles (140 km) away.

It is about 20 miles (32 km) west of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Texas Highways states that it is about 45 minutes travel time away.

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