Editing Whiteface, Texas (section)

== History ==
According to the ''[[Handbook of Texas]]'', "The name of the town came from rancher [[Christopher Columbus Slaughter|C. C. Slaughter]]'s Whiteface Camp and Whiteface Pasture, which were named in turn for the cattle on his ranch."<ref name=handbook>{{cite web| url= https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hlw30|title=Whiteface, TX|work=Handbook of Texas|access-date=May 26, 2013|author=H. Allen Anderson}}</ref> By 1924, Slaughter's son-in-law, [[Ira P. DeLoache]], turned the ranch into the new community of Whiteface.<ref name=dallasmorningrealestate>{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Steve|title=Real estate promoter DeLoache was a Dallas legend back in the day|url=http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2012/11/real-estate-promoter-deloache-was-a-dallas-legend-back-in-the-day.html/|access-date=December 12, 2015|work=The Dallas Morning News|date=November 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222081224/http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2012/11/real-estate-promoter-deloache-was-a-dallas-legend-back-in-the-day.html/|archive-date=December 22, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The community was moved several miles the next year to be at the railroad. Oil was discovered near the town in 1937. It was incorporated in 1945.