Wake Village, Texas, Bowie County. (original) (raw)
33�25'33"N 94�6'42"W (33.425701, -94.111716)
U.S. 67, U.S. 82
Intersection of FM 989 and Old Redwater Road
Just W of Texarkana
Just S of Nash
ZIP code 75501
Area code 903
Population: 5,327 Est. (2019)
5,492 (2010) 5,129 (2000) 4,757 (1990)
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History in a Pecan Shell
Wake Village has no 19th Century history. It was built for the war effort in 1944/45 to provide housing for the plant workers at the Red River Army Depot and the Lone Star Ammunition Plant.
The name came from Wake Island in the Pacific theater of the war. The population was over 1,000 in the early 1950s and has only increased. In the early 1990s it had reached 4,400 and the 2000 census reported over 5,000.
Residents commute to Texarkana or still work at the Army installations.
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