[4] The community area was the site of an 1878 Indian raid, in which four settlers, all children, were killed.

[5] The first Mountain Home post office was established in 1879,[6] with Hiram L Nelson as the first Postmaster.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Fisheries Research Station[7] opened on Highway 27 in 1925.

The Texas Catholic Boys Camp[8] was started in Mountain Home in 1951 by the Society of Mary.

[9] Divide ISD feeds into Ingram Independent School District, which provides secondary education.