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MUNDAY,
TEXASKnox County,
Texas Panhandle/North Central Texas
Highways 277, and 222 and FMs 1587 and
2811
20 Miles N of Haskell
23
Miles SW of Seymour
12 Miles E of Knox
City
Population: 1,527 (2000) |
History in a Pecan
Shell
Originally called Maud after a popular citizen, the town evolved
from the humble building of its first store in 1893. The following year storekeeper
R.P. Munday applied for a post office and submitted his name on the application
- which was granted. Maud became Munday by post decree. Even in its infantcy,
Munday was split into East and West sections. In 1903 the storekeepers and businesses
in West Munday moved to East Munday, forming a single and united town. Three years
later the railroad began service and made Munday Knox County's dominant town,
although it doesn't seem to have tried to become the county seat.
Earlier
statistics are not available, but the 1940 population shows over 1,500 citizens
in Munday, growing to a peak of 2,270 just ten years later. Cotton processing
was always a major economic factor, but irrigation permitted farmers to diversify
into vegetable crops. In 1971 Texas A&M University opened research facility here.
The population dropped to 1,978 in 1960, 1,762 ten years later and 1,600 in 1990. |
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