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Bangs is a city in Brown County in west-central Texas, named after Samuel Bangs, who was given the land for his services as a printer in the Texas Revolution but reportedly never saw the land.

The town began in 1886, when the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway laid tracks from Brownwood to San Angelo and built a depot at Bangs; its post office was approved on May 24, 1886.

Bangs' first school was built in 1892, and the Bangs Independent School District, formed in 1927, eventually consolidated nine other school districts.

The school district today covers about 208 square miles, reaching into Coleman County, with campuses that descend from that first two-room frame schoolhouse of 1892.

Bangs incorporated in 1915 with 600 residents and 21 businesses, installed a water system the following year, and was crossed by U.S. Highway 67 in 1937.

In 1948, when Bangs had only 756 residents, senatorial candidate Lyndon B. Johnson arrived by helicopter and was greeted by a crowd estimated at 700 people - nearly the entire town.

The 2020 census counted 1,540 people living in 610 households in Bangs, within a city area of just 1.5 square miles.

U.S. Routes 67 and 84 run together through Bangs, leading east about 9 miles to Brownwood, the Brown County seat.

Bangs is the birthplace of Debs Garms, a Major League Baseball batting champion.

Country and Christian singer Coffey Anderson was also born in Bangs, and the town's old railroad station appears in his music video '15 Minutes'.