Hoover, Texas

Hoover is an unincorporated community in Gray County, Texas, United States.

[1] Established in 1887 on the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway, Hoover is named form businessman and landowner Harvey E. Hoover.

A post office opened in January 1910, with E. D. McClain becoming postmaster, until it closed in 1914, but reopened in 1915 until closure in 1972.

It was a shipping point for cattle drovers during the 1920s, and oil was discovered in the 1930s.

From the 1940s, the town declined, and as of 2000, the population was 5.

Gray County map