The population was 5,586 at the 2000 census and 5,764 at the 2010 census. Sweetwater is the home of the Craighead Caverns which contains the Lost Sea, the United States' largest underground lake.
2011, The HOTTEST Year for Texas. Tweet. For most of Texas, 2011 is now the hottest year on record while city after city shatter records of 100 degree days. Texas is in a severe drought, only averaging about 1 inch of rain during July, and in many areas things are becoming desperate.
Here are the hottest cities on earth, where you wonât want to be without a bottle of water. 1. Dallas, Texas, USA (average of 96 in July) On June 26, 1980, a record was set in Dallas for a temperature of 113 degrees and it hit 113 again the very next day.