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Snipe, Texas

Coordinates: 29°07′25″N 95°28′56″W / 29.12361°N 95.48222°W / 29.12361; -95.48222
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Snipe, Texas
Snipe is located in Texas
Snipe
Snipe
Location within the state of Texas
Coordinates: 29°07′25″N 95°28′56″W / 29.12361°N 95.48222°W / 29.12361; -95.48222
CountryUnited States
StateTexas
CountyBrazoria
Elevation
30 ft (9 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes
77515
Area code979
GNIS feature ID1380567[1]

Snipe is an unincorporated community in central Brazoria County, Texas, United States. It was formerly a distinct community. The location of Snipe is 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Angleton on the Union Pacific Railroad and Oyster Creek. Raymond Weems, Snipe's first postmaster, named Snipe after a facetious reference made about the place by his father's hunting partner.[2]

A post office operated in Snipe from 1921 to 1949; the post office served the Retrieve Prison Farm (now the Wayne Scott Unit).[2]

References

  1. ^ "Snipe, Texas". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ a b "Snipe, Texas." Handbook of Texas. Retrieved on July 16, 2010.