Population 1,741
Altitude 3,695.
The city was established during the middle of the night in May,
1901, when Sherman County records were moved from former county
seat at Coldwater to land owned by Walter Colton along the new
Rock Island Railroad route. Texas Rangers were called to settle
the dispute over the location of the county seat. Coldwater has
disappeared. There is dispute, too, over the origin of the city
name; Colton, an Englishman, named it for Stratford-on-Avon, or
for Virginia plantation, birthplace of Robert E. Lee, whom he
admired. Local economy is based on wheat, corn and feed grains
that re used in large feedlot operations.