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Asherton is a city in Dimmit County, Texas, known colloquially to locals as 'Cheto,' with U.S. Highway 83 passing through it.

Asherton was built by rancher Asher Richardson, who bought a huge tract of land in a special state sale, and his Asherton Land and Irrigation Company developed some 48,000 acres.

Richardson also funded the Asherton and Gulf Railway, telephone service arrived in 1905, the town got a post office in 1909, and by 1915 it had about 1,000 residents with a bank and hotels.

Asherton incorporated in 1925 and is one of the few communities in Texas that still uses the city commission form of government.

In 1927 Asherton became one of the largest producers of Bermuda onions in the United States, the crop that defined the Winter Garden farming region.

Asherton's population peaked at 2,425 in the 1950 census, when it was one of the biggest towns in Dimmit County.

The 2020 census counted just 722 residents in Asherton living in 299 households — down from 1,084 in 2010 — and about 96% of residents were Hispanic or Latino.

Asherton sits at the center of Dimmit County on El Moro Creek, eight miles southeast of Carrizo Springs, the county seat, and 72 miles north of Laredo.

Asherton Elementary School serves local children in prekindergarten through grade 6, while older students attend junior high and high school in Carrizo Springs as part of the Carrizo Springs Consolidated ISD.

Asherton had its own school district until the Asherton ISD was forced to close on July 1, 1999, over taxation concerns.