Blackland TX · Historic maps

Frost

1898

Population 800

One sheet. The commercial row faces the St. L. S. W. tracks on N. Front and Pace: dry goods, groceries, hardware and a post office, drugs, a barber, a restaurant. Frost Oil Mill Co. and T. J. Sheppard's gin and grist mill sit south of the tracks, with Clonch & Morgan's lumber yard, a cotton platform and three cotton yards. A Baptist church, an M.E. church, a High School with a dormitory and a Public School. The seal notes no fire department and no water works.

1904

Population 800

Frost now has water works: a 51,000-gallon standpipe fed from an artesian well, twelve hydrants. A volunteer fire department of 30 men. Planters Cotton Oil Co.'s oil mill stands on the Cotton Belt switch; D. W. Bennett & Son's flour mill and cotton gin, T. J. Sheppard's square-bale gin and G. J. Bason's Munger gin work around the town. The old dormitory is now marked as school rooms.

1909

Population 800

The Frost Water Works plant is drawn in its own inset, and the fire department is 20 volunteers. Four gins now: D. W. Bennett & Son, Brown Gin Co., Frost Gin Co. and Goode Bros. Planters Cotton Oil Co.'s mill is still the largest works in town. A Baptist church and an M.E. church, a livery and a boarding house on the Pace Street blocks.

1915

Population 1,000

Population reaches 1,000. Water now comes from the Frost Artesian Well Co., installed in 1915. The index names Planters' Cotton Oil Co., four gins (G. J. Bason, Irene Gin Co., J. L. Mitchel and W. A. Simms), E. F. Melton & Co.'s garage and electric light plant, the Commercial Hotel, a post office, Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian churches and the Frost Public School with its upstairs auditorium.

Source: Library of Congress, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection, read 2026-09-24. Public domain.