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Graford is a small city in Palo Pinto County in North Texas, roughly 80 miles west of Fort Worth.

Graford's name is a blend of Graham and Weatherford, the two larger towns between which it sits halfway.

George R. Bevers is credited with being the area's first settler, settling in 1854 on Big Keechi Creek at the Flat Rock Crossing and building his house in the mid-1850s on the Fort Worth to Fort Belknap road.

Graford's post office opened in 1894, and the town's first reported population was 313 in 1920.

Graford's population jumped to 804 in 1940 but then fell back, reaching a low of 448 in 1960.

The 2020 census counted 669 people in Graford, a 14.6 percent increase over 2010, with a median age of 35.8 years.

Graford covers just 0.7 square miles, all of it land, and it is the second most populous community in Palo Pinto County, after Mineral Wells.

Graford lies about 12 miles east of Possum Kingdom Lake, an 18,000-acre reservoir on the Brazos River known for boating, fishing, swimming, and the twin cliffs called Hell's Gate.

Graford is served by the Graford Independent School District, and the Graford High School Jackrabbits are a small-school basketball power with a tradition stretching back to a state tournament appearance in 1965.

In March 2022, the Graford Jackrabbits won the school's first Texas Class 1A state basketball championship, finishing 37-3 and beating defending champion Texline 42-39, after the boys' team had lost in the state final game eight times before.