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Seagraves is a small city in northern Gaines County on the southern High Plains of West Texas, at the junction of U.S. Highway 62/285 and State Highway 83.

The community began as Blythe, named for the ranch post office kept at S. J. Blythe's home, but when the Santa Fe Railroad arrived in 1917 the town was renamed for Charles L. Seagraves, a railroad traveling agent, because the Santa Fe already had a Blythe in California.

The Spearman Land Company promoted the Seagraves townsite in 1916-18, while the area's original settlers, the J. C. Sartin family, had arrived back in 1905 with nearly 800 cattle.

A 1928 fire destroyed much of Seagraves' business district — the Seagraves Motor Company was the only building left standing on the west side of Main Street — and the town rebuilt in brick, with many of those buildings still standing.

Oil production beginning in 1936 sent Seagraves booming, and its population jumped from 505 in 1930 to 3,225 in 1940.

Seagraves was the largest town in Gaines County until 1950, when Seminole, the county seat, surpassed it.

The 2020 census counted 2,153 residents and 772 households in Seagraves, down from a late-20th-century plateau of roughly 2,400 to 2,600 people.

About 74 percent of Seagraves residents were Hispanic or Latino at the 2020 census.

Seagraves serves as a market town for a three-county farming and ranching area and has hosted a carbon black plant.

The Seagraves Independent School District serves the city, and its high school teams are known as the Seagraves High School Eagles.