Finding Nemo? Where'd This Texas Town Get its Strange Name? - Nemo, TX
N 32° 15.599 W 097° 39.095
14S E 627010 N 3570051
WFAA - Channel 8 (Dallas) has an ongoing series about Texas communities with interesting names, and Nemo was their subject on February 11, 2019.
Waymark Code: WM121J6
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/02/2020
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This was a television only feature, and WFAA also has the
video on their YouTube channel. The feature is introduced with "on the street" bits where reporter Sean Giggy asks someone how they think a particular town, like Nemo or Ding Dong, got its name, and then the real story begins. Nemo is today a small, rural community that is a bit east of Glen Rose, and its name has nothing to do with the movies or fish. Giggy interviews a local citizen -- Ken Fry of the Somervell County Historical Commission -- in a vintage log cabin, and we find that the settlement began here after the stagecoach arrived. One of the early settlers was named "Jimmie Johnson", and there was such respect for him that the stagecoach station took his name as "Johnson Stop". When it came time for a post office, the United States Government turned down "Johnson Stop", the reason being that it was too long, too many letters in the name. The locals gathered to pick a new name, and one erudite gentleman suggested that if Johnson's name wasn't good enough, no one's name was: He offered "Nemo", Latin for "no one", and the choice stuck.