Editing Evant, Texas (section)

== History ==
[[File:Evant Texas water tower.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.5|Water tower of Evant]]
The town of Evant was first a settlement called "Langford Cove", settled by Asa Langford and his family in 1855. Langford served as postmaster in the first post office, named "Cove", established in February 1876. By the late 1850s, Langford had built a general store, a blacksmith shop, and a sawmill near the current site of the town.

An [[Alabama]] man named Evan T. Brooks purchased some {{convert|160|acre|km2}} of land from Langford in the late 1870s. In 1881, Brooks donated {{convert|60|acre|m2}} of land "for sale and settlement as a town", and by 1884 the growing community changed its name to "Evant" in Brooks' honor. In the 1890s, the community had a [[cotton gin]], three [[general store]]s, a [[gristmill]], and a [[hotel]]. Its population was around 10 residents.

Evant continued to grow, reporting a peak population of 550 sometime in the 1950s. The town was formally incorporated in the mid-1970s. Its population at the time was 540 and has continued to shrink. According to the 1990 census, the town's population was 444, and by 2000 it had dropped to 393.