DIVIDE, TX (HOPKINS COUNTY) DIVIDE, TEXAS (Hopkins County).
Divide, on Farm Road 3389 ten miles southwest of the community
of Sulphur Springs in southwestern Hopkins County, first formed
around 1880, when a post office was established there with James
Webster as postmaster. By 1885 the town had a steam gristmill,
two cotton gins, three churches, a district school, and a
population of 130. By 1890 its population had dropped to twenty-
five, and in 1899 the post office closed. A school was in
operation there around 1900, and a Baptist church was
established in 1905, but by the mid-1930s the community no
longer appeared on highway maps. In the 1960s Divide had a
church and a number of scattered dwellings. In the late 1980s
the community still had a church. The following, adapted from
the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred
citation for this article.Christopher Long, "DIVIDE, TX (HOPKINS
COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online
(http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrd26),
accessed June