ZORN, TX

ZORN, TEXAS. Zorn is on State Highway 123 thirteen miles north of Seguin in northern Guadalupe County. It was named for Joseph Zorn, who had a store there in the 1850s. A post office opened in 1891. By 1896 Zorn had two gristmills, a general store, and 150 residents. The population fell to 100 in 1933, to ninety-six in 1968, and to twenty-six in 1988 and 1990. The population reached sixty in 2000.

Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl

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Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl, "ZORN, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnz02), accessed May 24, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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