About: Darwin, Texas

An Entity of Type: Ghost town, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Darwin was a coal mining town near Laredo in west central Webb County, Texas, United States at the confluence of the Rio Grande and Santo Tomas creek near the present day Colombia-Solidarity International Bridge. It was founded in 1882 after coal was found near the area. It was named after David Darwin Davis, the Cannel Coal Company owner. In 1914, the town's population grew to 800 and the was built to transport the coal extracted in nearby mines. By 1939 the mines were shut down and the population declined to 75. Today, Darwin is a ghost town where all that remains is a cemetery.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Darwin was a coal mining town near Laredo in west central Webb County, Texas, United States at the confluence of the Rio Grande and Santo Tomas creek near the present day Colombia-Solidarity International Bridge. It was founded in 1882 after coal was found near the area. It was named after David Darwin Davis, the Cannel Coal Company owner. In 1914, the town's population grew to 800 and the was built to transport the coal extracted in nearby mines. By 1939 the mines were shut down and the population declined to 75. Today, Darwin is a ghost town where all that remains is a cemetery. (en)
  • Darwin​ fue una ciudad minera de carbón cerca de Laredo en el centro oeste del condado de Webb, Texas, Estados Unidos, en la confluencia del río Bravo y el arroyo Santo Tomás, cerca del actual Puente Internacional Colombia-Solidaridad. Fue fundado en 1882 después de que se encontrara carbón cerca del área. Lleva el nombre de David Darwin Davis, el propietario de Cannel Coal Company. En 1914, la población de la ciudad creció a 800 y se construyó el para transportar el carbón extraído en las minas cercanas. En 1939 se cerraron las minas y la población se redujo a 75. Hoy, Darwin es un pueblo fantasma donde todo lo que queda es un cementerio. (es)
dbo:areaCode
  • +1-956
dbo:populationTotal
  • 0 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:type
dbo:utcOffset
  • -5
  • -6
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 11624174 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3646 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 952783270 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:areaCode
  • +1-956 (en)
dbp:establishedDate
  • 1882 (xsd:integer)
dbp:establishedTitle
  • Established (en)
dbp:footnotes
  • Nearest Airports: Laredo: Laredo International Airport KLRD LRD Nuevo Laredo: Quetzalcoatl International Airport MMNL NLD (en)
dbp:officialName
  • Darwin, Texas (en)
dbp:populationTotal
  • 0 (xsd:integer)
dbp:settlementType
dbp:timezone
  • CST (en)
dbp:timezoneDst
  • CST (en)
dbp:utcOffset
  • -6 (xsd:integer)
dbp:utcOffsetDst
  • -5 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:wordnet_type
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
georss:point
  • 27.711944444444445 -99.74527777777777
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Darwin was a coal mining town near Laredo in west central Webb County, Texas, United States at the confluence of the Rio Grande and Santo Tomas creek near the present day Colombia-Solidarity International Bridge. It was founded in 1882 after coal was found near the area. It was named after David Darwin Davis, the Cannel Coal Company owner. In 1914, the town's population grew to 800 and the was built to transport the coal extracted in nearby mines. By 1939 the mines were shut down and the population declined to 75. Today, Darwin is a ghost town where all that remains is a cemetery. (en)
  • Darwin​ fue una ciudad minera de carbón cerca de Laredo en el centro oeste del condado de Webb, Texas, Estados Unidos, en la confluencia del río Bravo y el arroyo Santo Tomás, cerca del actual Puente Internacional Colombia-Solidaridad. Fue fundado en 1882 después de que se encontrara carbón cerca del área. Lleva el nombre de David Darwin Davis, el propietario de Cannel Coal Company. En 1914, la población de la ciudad creció a 800 y se construyó el para transportar el carbón extraído en las minas cercanas. En 1939 se cerraron las minas y la población se redujo a 75. Hoy, Darwin es un pueblo fantasma donde todo lo que queda es un cementerio. (es)
rdfs:label
  • Darwin, Texas (en)
  • Darwin (Texas) (es)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(-99.745277404785 27.711944580078)
geo:lat
  • 27.711945 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • -99.745277 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Darwin, Texas (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License