Editing Sudan, Texas (section)

==History==

According to ''[[The Handbook of Texas]]'', the area where the town is now located was once granted to the county in 1892 by the 77 Ranch, owned by S.B. Wilson and Wilson Furneaux.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjs30|title=Sudan, TX|work=Handbook of Texas Online|accessdate=12 March 2013|author= William R. Hunt}}</ref> The town developed in 1917–1918 with a hotel and service from the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|Santa Fe]] railroad, which had built a branch line from [[Lubbock, Texas]], to [[Texico, New Mexico]], in 1913. The land company manager and first postmaster, P.E. Boesen, suggested the town's name in 1918.  A gin was built in 1922 and a bank established a year later. The town was incorporated in 1925, when the population was 600, up from a population of only 15 in 1920. The first of several [[grain elevator]]s was also erected in 1925 and the ''Sudan News'' began publication. The population was 1,014 in 1930, 1,336 in 1950, 976 in 1970, and 1,091 in 1980. In 1990, it was 983. The population reached 1,039 in 2000.