Editing Nixon, Texas (section)

===Urban Nixon===
[[File:Texas - Mission through Nixon - NARA - 68149610 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Nixon in 1926]]
Nixon as an urban development began in 1869, at the site of its First Baptist Church within its 100-block grid on Texas Avenue, near Wilson County. The [[San Antonio]] Baptist Association established a local mission here under Reverend T. Christmas and Reverend J.F. Hines.

The congregation had established a sanctuary one-mile north in Rancho, and consolidated it into the Nixon congregation upon the city's incorporation in 1907. In 1921, they began to partner with the congregation in [[Leakey, Texas]], west of San Antonio.

The Nixon First Baptist Church is considered an original cultural founder of the community.<ref>{{cite book |title=First Baptist Church of Nixon |publisher=Texas Historical Commission}}</ref>

====Nixon News====
In the early 20th century, Nixon had a local newspaper titled ''Nixon News''. It was forced to cease publication in September 1921. The editor cited reasons ranging from a lack of advertisement in the paper, lack of support from local businesses and apathy from the general community. ''The Daily Advocate'' newspaper of Victoria, Texas, during this period, suggested that the downscaling of another significant Texan paper was a related trend.<ref>[https://img.newspapers.com/clip/22356468/daily_advocate/ Nixon News is Forced to Quit Its Publication]; text: "We have on our desk the final copy of the Nixon News, edited and owned by Riley Webb at Nixon, Texas. Editor Webb gives as his reason for suspending publication "the lack of advertising and support from the business men and the indifference shown toward the paper by the citizenship as a whole." Within the last few days we have also learned of the changing of one of the larger daily newspapers of the State, published in what is considered one of the best towns in the state, to a weekly publication. More than likely the same reasons prompted the owner of the big daily as prompted Riley Webb of the News..."</ref>

The trade-name of the paper returned as early as 1980 through 1986, serving as an executive over three annual city festivals; celebrating Nixon's overall production of a broad-range of poultry products and byproducts, purportedly the highest in the State of Texas at that time. At present Nixon News is, again, no longer published but was considered award-winning in "Community Service" by the Texas Press Association in 1980.<ref>{{cite news |title=The History of Nixon Feather Fest |url=https://i.imgur.com/VYrNKbh.jpg |access-date=25 June 2020 |publisher=Gonzales County, Texas Archives |date=August 30, 1986}}</ref>

Through 2013 until 2017, the trade-named resumed its most recent operation as an online newspaper titled “The Nixon News” with publications on local politics. This third-iteration of the publication is no longer published as well.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nixon News |url=http://www.thenixonnews.com/ |publisher= |access-date=22 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130915115205/http://www.thenixonnews.com/ |archive-date=15 September 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

====Nixon intersection====
Since approximately 2015, the Nixon intersection of [[U.S. Highway 87]] and [[Texas State Highway 80]] has been marked by the [[Texas Department of Transportation]] having to hire and replace multiple contractors, after continual delay to install traffic signals over three-and-a-half years; an installation that would normally be a "routine upgrade." The Nixon City Manager hypothesized the delays began with a first contractor "not working in a timely manner." After a first contractor, time was consumed by an initial six-month delay, another set of construction bids and years of replacement of prior work.<ref>[http://gonzalesinquirer.com/stories/nixon-intersection-lights-finally-live,26489 ''Lights Finally Live!'']; text: "After years of delays, the traffic signal at the intersection of U.S. Highway 87 and State Highway 80 in Nixon is finally live and operational. What should have been a routine two-step upgrade, ended up taking around three and a half years to complete and featured multiple contractors..."</ref>

====COVID-19====
In late March 2020, the first confirmed case of [[COVID-19]] in [[Gonzales County]] was discovered in Nixon.<ref>[http://gonzalesinquirer.com/stories/confirmed-covid-19-case-identified-in-gonzales-county,27448 ''Confirmed CoVid-19 Case Identified in Gonzales County'']; text: "Gonzales County is reporting its first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Nixon area. Communications have been ongoing between county and city officials, the local healthcare facility and Gonzales County Emergency Management since the report was confirmed. These local leaders are working closely with the Texas Department of State Health Services while they determine who the person has been in contact with over the last 14 days, so those persons may be isolated and monitored for symptoms...."</ref>