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Dimmitt is the county seat of Castro County on the Texas High Plains, on U.S. Highway 385 about fifty-five miles southwest of Amarillo.

The townsite of Dimmitt was laid out in March 1890 by the Bedford Town and Land Company and named for the Reverend W. C. Dimmitt, the brother-in-law of promoter H. G. Bedford, who handled the lot sales.

Dimmitt won a hard-fought contest against rival townsites — a rivalry remembered for a gunfight between promoters on the courthouse lawn — and was elected Castro County seat on December 18, 1891.

Dimmitt's first wooden courthouse, completed in 1892, was destroyed by a lightning-caused fire in 1906, and the present Castro County Courthouse dates to the late 1930s.

Dimmitt kept the county seat despite having no railroad for decades; when the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway was finally extended to town in July 1928, Dimmitt incorporated.

In 1942 a meteorite discovered in Castro County was named the Dimmitt meteorite after the town.

Dimmitt sits at an elevation of about 3,875 feet and was a stop on the old Ozark Trail, a historic automobile route that ran from St. Louis, Missouri, to El Paso, Texas.

Dimmitt's population peaked at 5,019 in 1980 and has declined slowly since; the 2020 census counted 4,171 residents.

Former Texas state senator and United States congressman Kent Hance came from Dimmitt.

Dimmitt is by far the largest community in Castro County, home to more than half of the county's total population.