Editing Crowley, Texas (section)

== History ==
Around 1848, pioneers began farming the area around Deer Creek.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hfc16|title=Crowley, Texas| publisher= Texas State Historical Association |access-date=August 16, 2012}}</ref> The settlement moved a mile or so west to the site of present-day downtown Crowley when the [[Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway]] built pens and laid tracks there. The first station depot was built in 1885. The community was named for S. H. Crowley, who was the master of transportation for the railroad.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=26328 | title= Profile for Crowley, Texas, TX | publisher= ePodunk | access-date= August 16, 2012 | archive-date= February 9, 2013 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130209184234/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=26328 | url-status= dead }}</ref>

An election to approve the incorporation of Crowley was held on February 3, 1951. The town council voted to change the designation of Crowley from a town to a city on September 3, 1972.