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Valentine is a town in Jeff Davis County, West Texas, and it is the only incorporated municipality in the entire county.

Valentine was named for the date a Southern Pacific Railroad construction crew reached the townsite — February 14, 1882, Valentine's Day.

Valentine's post office was established in 1886 and still operates at 311 W. California Avenue.

Valentine sits on U.S. Route 90 between Marfa and Van Horn at an elevation of 4,436 feet, in a flat basin between the Davis Mountains to the east and the Sierra Vieja to the west.

Valentine has a semiarid climate with cool, dry winters and hot, dry summers, receiving only about 12 inches of precipitation a year.

Valentine was struck on August 16, 1931, by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake — the largest ever recorded in Texas — which badly damaged nearly all of its non-wooden buildings, including the school, though no one was killed.

Valentine had just 73 residents in the 2020 census, and the town has no gas station or grocery store.

Valentine's little post office is known as the "Love Station": every year more than 10,000 envelopes arrive from around the world so they can be remailed with Valentine's special Valentine's Day pictorial postmark.

Valentine's annual postmark design is chosen from a student art contest, a tradition the U.S. Postal Service began in 1994 with Valentine ISD students.

Valentine hosts the Valentine's in Valentine music festival each February 14, an event that draws more than 1,500 visitors to a town of fewer than 100 people.