Seagoville ( ) is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas. A small portion of Seagoville extends into Kaufman County. Its population was 18,446 at the 2020 census. The city is located along U.S. Highway 175, from downtown Mesquite.
History
Seagoville was originally called Seago, and under this name was laid out in 1876 by T. K. Seago (1836–1904), and named after him. The United States Post Office changed the town's name to "Seagoville" in 1910 to prevent confusion with another city in Texas called Sego. Internees at Seagoville published a German-language newsletter called the Sägedorfer Fliegende Blätter. The camp housed up to 647 people, and was closed in June 1945, after the internees were either "repatriated" to Japan or Germany, or transferred to Crystal City, Texas.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which are land and , or 1.58%, is covered by water.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Seagoville had a population of 18,446. The median age was 34.2 years. 27.5% of residents were under the age of 18 and 9.6% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 117.3 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 123.4 males age 18 and over.
96.6% of residents lived in urban areas, while 3.4% lived in rural areas.
There were 5,136 households in Seagoville, of which 48.2% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 49.6% were married-couple households, 15.9% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 27.0% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 18.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
! Race !! Number !! Percent
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| White || 7,919 || 42.9%
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| Black or African American || 3,392 || 18.4%
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| American Indian and Alaska Native || 291 || 1.6%
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| Asian || 106 || 0.6%
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| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander || 17 || 0.1%
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| Some other race || 3,828 || 20.8%
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| Two or more races || 2,893 || 15.7%
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| Hispanic or Latino (of any race) || 8,769 || 47.5%
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Government and infrastructure
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Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville is located in Seagoville.
The United States Postal Service operates the Seagoville Post Office on Seagoville Road in Kleberg, Dallas. It was previously located at 314 Glendale Avenue, in a rented facility in Seagoville. Since around 1882<!--129 years until 2011--> a post office had been located in the Seagoville city limits. In 2011, the USPS announced that it was closing the existing Seagoville post office and consolidating it into the Kleberg Post Office, a USPS-owned facility since renamed to the Seagoville Post Office, citing cost-cutting reasons in response to a budget shortfall. Though individuals had offered to pay for the rental costs at Seagoville, the USPS insisted on closing the city post office. As of 2011, the Seagoville city post office was busier than the Kleberg one.
Dallas Independent School District
Almost all of the Dallas County portion of Seagoville is served by the Dallas Independent School District. The area is within the Board of Trustees District 4. Portions of Seagoville are zoned to Central Elementary School, Seagoville North Elementary School, and Seagoville Elementary School. All of the city is zoned to Seagoville Middle School (grades 6–8), and Seagoville High School (grades 9–12).
Seagoville North Elementary School was scheduled to open in 2012. Prior to 2012, the students in the Dallas County portion were zoned to Seagoville Elementary School (at the time, prekindergarten–grade 2) and Central Elementary School (at the time, grades 3–5).
Seagoville Elementary, Seagoville North, and Central Elementary are within the Seagoville city limits, while Seagoville Middle and Seagoville High are in Dallas, near the city of Seagoville. Seagoville Alternative Center, an alternative school, is within the city limits.
DISD maintains the Seagoville Stadium.
Seagoville Independent School District was previously the town's school district. In 1965, the district was absorbed into the DISD. The area was formerly zoned to Thompson Elementary School.
History of schools
The first school established in Seagoville was the Brinegar School. The one-room log schoolhouse, which featured split-log seating, was constructed around 1867 in the area of the modern-day Heard Park. Professor J.T. Doss built a new school building in 1880; it was called Woodside. Another school opened in a four-frame building. A cyclone destroyed one of its rooms in 1903, and in 1909, that school was destroyed in a fire. In 1910, a new brick high-school building opened on the site of what is now Seagoville Elementary School.
Seagoville High School first opened in 1928 on land purchased in 1927. This building later burned down, and Central Elementary School opened on the former high-school site. The current high-school facility and Seagoville Middle School opened on a plot of land donated by M.D. Reeves in 1952: one building opened in 1955 and the other opened in September 1958. Seagoville was in the Seagoville Independent School District until August 1964, when it merged into DISD.
Public libraries
Seagoville has its own public library, the Seagoville Public Library, at 702 North U.S. Highway 175.
Community colleges
The Texas Legislature defines all of Dallas County (including the vast majority of Seagoville) as being in the Dallas College (formerly Dallas County Community College or DCCCD) district. The portion in Kaufman County is within the Trinity Valley Community College district.
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Notable people
- LaMarcus Aldridge - NBA player, attended Seagoville High School
- Chill Wills - actor, born and raised in Seagoville
- Antonio Wilson - NFL player, born in Seagoville
References
External links
- City of Seagoville official website
- SeagovilleNews.com – News & Information website
- Seagoville Library
- Seagoville Chamber of Commerce
- Seagoville Economic Development Corporation
Schools:
- Seagoville Middle School – Located in Kleberg, Dallas
- Central Elementary School
- Seagoville Elementary School
- Seagoville North Elementary School