Editing Corral City, Texas (section)

==History==
A woman named Geneva Helton and her husband decided to form an incorporated municipality to allow the legal sale of liquor (Denton County does not allow the sale of liquor county-wide, only by local option). The Heltons bought over {{convert|20|acre|ha}} of land from a family friend. The two then installed a sewer system and established a liquor store. Corral City incorporated in 1973. Afterwards doublewide trailers and recreational vehicles appeared in the city limits. Candace Carlisle of the ''[[Denton Record-Chronicle]]'' said that Corral City "prospered" for a decade, but after the early 1990s retirement of Geneva Helton's and the death of her husband, the town, in Carlisle's words, "began a slow decline. Soon, all that remained was a graveyard of rotting doublewides."<ref name="Smalltowns">Carlisle, Candace. "[http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_Towns_0216.c7b7dbbf.html Small towns disappearing across North Texas prairie] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219173129/http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_Towns_0216.c7b7dbbf.html |date=2008-02-19 }}." ''[[Denton Record-Chronicle]]''. Friday February 15, 2008. Retrieved on July 26, 2010.</ref>

According to Carlisle, by 1993, "Corral City looked in every way like a vanquished 'ghost town'." James "Eddie" Draper became the mayor and owner of Corral City. Carlise said that to Draper, "it was a boomtown waiting to happen."

In October 2016, Corral City was renamed to Draper in honor of former mayor James "Eddie" Draper. However, the name reverted back to Corral City in 2020.