El Toro


EL TORO, TEXAS. El Toro, at the junction of U. S. Highway 59 and Farm Road 234, four miles east of Edna in Jackson County, had a post office from 1899 to 1900. In 1948 the town had four businesses, and there were thirteen farms in the immediate area. By 1986 the community, located next to the Miller gas field and the Southern Pacific tracks, had a grain elevator and one other business. By the late 1980s El Toro consisted of a smattering of widely dispersed dwellings.

History from the Handbook of Texas Online
 



El Toro, from Texas railroads, 1900
 

Postmasters of El Toro

Draper, Jos. W., 11 Jan 1899
Trousdale, Jas. R., 17 Nov 1899
Gross, John W., 21 Sep 1900

Discontinued 15 Oct 1900; papers to Edna


1936 Map of El Toro from General Highway Map of Jackson County, 1936

 

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