Klondike, Delta County, Texas
Klondike is an unincorporated community in Delta County, Texas, United States. It lies in the southwestern corner of the county at the junction of Farm to Market Roads 1528 and 2890, three miles southwest of Cooper. As of the 2000 Census, its population was estimated at 135. History Klondike's documented history began in 1852, when local landowner John Hunt donated a parcel of land for a cemetery for the community, which was then known as Pleasant Grove. By the early 1860s, a school had begun serving the area's pupils, sharing a building with a small Methodist congregation. Pleasant Grove entered a period of mild prosperity in 1895, when the Texas-Midland Railroad spur to Cooper was completed through the community, and by 1897, the population had risen to 75, and prominent citizen and landowner Joel Jefferson Hunt applied for a postal franchise under the name Klondike, in honor of the Canadian Klondike, site of the gold rush. In 1901, the Klondike Baptist Church of Christ, which had been sharing a building with the Methodist congregation, built their own building, and three years later, Klondike's population exceeded 150, and by 1905, the community's two segregated schools had a combined enrollment of 183