Public Notice of Accepting Sealed Bids for City owned trucks: City of Shallowater Public Notice The City of Shallowater will be accepting sealed bids with a minimum bid of $300 for each of the following trucks and will be sold as is. The vehicles can be seen and are located at the Utility Barn at 401 Clovis Road. If you would like to view one of the trucks, please contact City Hall at (806) 696-4300 during regular business hours and we will have someone let you in the gate.   VIN #                                       YEAR                MAKE & MODEL 1D7HU18P37S183543            2007                DODGE RAM 1500 PICKUP 1/2T 1GCSCPEXXAZ278724            2010                CHEVROLET 1500 1C6RR7XT6LS138115             2020                DODGE RAM 1500   You may mail the sealed bids to City of Shallowater, Attention: Nikki Coronado, PO Box 246, Shallowater, Texas, 79363 or drop them off at City Hall located at 801 Avenue G, Shallowater, Texas, 79363. The bids must be submitted by 3:00 p.m. Monday, April 14, 2025 and the highest bidder will be awarded at the April 15, 2025 Regular Meeting of the Shallowater City Council at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Police Department Training Room, 607 Avenue G, Shallowater, Texas, 79363. The vehicles will be sold as is to the highest bidder, and the bidder must remit payment in certified funds within one week of the bid being accepted. If no bids are received the vehicles will be taken to auction or sold for parts. If you have any questions, please contact Shallowater City Hall at 806-696-4300. Thank you

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As early as 1909 J. C. (Jim) Bowles, whose ranch was adjacent to the site of what is now Shallowater, persuaded Bob Crump, a member of a ranching family, to help form a townsite company and attract a railroad to go through the area. Land was purchased for the townsite on May 18, 1909. A school was built at that time. After Santa Fe railroad officials received a bonus from rancher George W. Littlefield of the Yellow House Ranch, negotiations were finally completed. The originators of the plan, and other interested individuals, formed the Ripley Townsite Company, which was named after a Santa Fe railroad official and was incorporated on May 22, 1909. The company decided to name the new town Shallowater to attract settlers.

On June 26, 1913, a celebration was held to note the founding of the town and completion of the railroad. By the time the town was established, the ranching industry in the area was waning and many of the large ranches were being divided into smaller lots for farmers. Cotton became an important cash crop. During the 1920s, Shallowater grew rapidly, and the town had a hotel, a lumberyard, and various filling stations, grocery stores, cotton gins, drugstores, barbershops, garages, blacksmith shops, and other businesses. Several churches and schools were also built. A county park with a clubhouse was established, a public well was constructed, and a real depot building was built to replace the boxcar the town had been using for years.

From 1920 to 1922, the railroad station was known as Pacita. In 1928, the town had an estimated population of 250. In 1955, Shallowater was incorporated with a mayor-council form of city government, and during the 1960s, the town had five churches, a school, a bank, a library, and a newspaper. The community in 1970 had 30 businesses, including one of the largest hatcheries in the county. The population of Shallowater was 1,001 in 1960 and 1,339 in 1970. In the late 1980s, Shallowater had a post office, 17 businesses, and a population of 2,107. It was a farm marketing center with processing and storing facilities. In 2010, the population was 2,484.

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Emergency Alert 03-13-2025: On Friday, March 14th, 2025, starting at 0900, Xcel Energy MAY shut off electrical service in the Shallowater area, including the City of Shallowater, due to high winds and low humidity. If you receive power from Xcel Energy, please be prepared for an outage.