Official Name: | New Harp, Texas |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Texas#USA |
Pushpin Label: | New Harp |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Texas |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Montague |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 938 |
Coordinates: | 33.4525°N -97.5728°W |
Area Code: | 940 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1382383 |
New Harp is an unincorporated community in Montague County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, only eight people lived in the community in 2000.
Nixon P. Harp, who opened a general shop nearby in 1879, was honored with the name. Up until around 1900, the community was known as Harp Town; thereafter, it was called Harp. There was a post office there from 1894 to 1905. Between the middle of the 1930s and the middle of the 1950s, the town's reported population peaked at 67. Thirty people called the town home in the middle of the 1960s, the last time it provided a population estimate. The population was eight in 2000.
New Harp is located on Farm to Market Road 1655, 16miles southeast of Montague in extreme southeastern Montague County.
Today, the community is served by the Forestburg Independent School District.