Rainbow, TX 76077
N 32° 15.917 W 097° 42.884
14S E 621053 N 3570566
US Post Office at 1683 N FM 200, Rainbow, TX 76077. Hours are Monday through Friday, 7 AM to 11 AM, and Saturday, 11 AM to 1 PM. Closed Sunday.
Waymark Code: WMNZ7K
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/27/2015
Views: 2
The Handbook of Texas Online provides some background: (
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Rainbow is on FM Road 200 four miles northeast of Glen Rose in northeast Somervell County. Among the first settlers was William Porter, who established a school in the late 1860s; for several decades the area was referred to as the Porter school district. By the 1890s a community had developed, and the residents requested a post office. When the townspeople gathered to name the community a thunderstorm broke out, followed by a rainbow. The residents, struck by the beauty of the rainbow, named their town after it. A post office was opened in Rainbow in 1899. By 1910 the community had half a dozen stores, a church, and a school. In the 1920s a newspaper, the Rainbow Reminder, served the estimated 113 residents. Throughout the twentieth century Rainbow has served as a church and school community for area farmers. After the 1920s the population decreased, reaching a low of forty in 1960. By 1981 the number of residents had increased to seventy-six. This growth may be due in part to the opening of nearby Dinosaur Valley State Park in the 1970s. Through 2000 the population was still reported as seventy-six.
Type of structure:: Stand alone
re-enter Zip Code here:: 76077
Current Status:: Still in Use
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