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Daingerfield is the county seat and largest town of Morris County in Northeast Texas.

The town is named for Captain London Daingerfield, who was killed around 1830 in a battle with Native Americans near the spring around which the town grew.

Daingerfield was designated county seat of the Republic of Texas judicial county of Paschal in 1841, and it became the seat of Morris County when that county was created from Titus County in 1875.

Railroad service reached Daingerfield in 1877, anchoring it as the commercial center of its corner of East Texas.

The nearby Lone Star Steel plant transformed Daingerfield in the postwar years, and the population jumped from 1,032 in 1940 to 3,133 by 1960.

The 2020 census counted 2,522 people in Daingerfield, living in 949 households across the town's 2.4 square miles.

Daingerfield State Park, a piney-woods park built around a small spring-fed lake, sits just outside town.

Daingerfield High School's 1983 Tigers are Texas football legends: they went 16-0, outscored opponents 631-8, and posted 14 shutouts, a national record recognized by the National Federation of State High School Associations.

Dave Campbell's Texas Football ranked the 1983 Daingerfield Tigers the No. 2 most memorable team in Texas football history, behind only the 1969 Texas Longhorns.

The Tigers have won six state football championships in all: 1968, 1983, 1985, 2008, 2009, and 2010.