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Aleman, Texas

unincorporated community in Texas, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ110363182 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aleman is an unincorporated community in Hamilton County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 60 in 2000.

History

Aleman was first settled by German immigrants from Washington County. The community's population was 60 in the years 1980, 1990, and 2000.

Geography

Aleman is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 932 and 3340, 8 mi (13 km) southeast of Hamilton in central Hamilton County.

Education

Aleman had an elementary school in 1954. Today the community is served by the Hamilton Independent School District.

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The public source identifies “Aleman, Texas” as unincorporated community in Texas, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aleman, Texas and unincorporated.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1980, 1990, 1954—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Aleman, Texas and unincorporated providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q110363182. Authority coordinates are 31.632, -98.042. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 1980, 1990 and 1954.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aleman, Texas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.