Grit
Grit is an unincorporated farming and ranching community established ca.1889 in Mason County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The initial settlers considered naming the community after Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Frederick Funston, but a Funston, Texas already existed in Jones County and there was concern of postal delivery confusion.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: ghost town in Mason County, Texas
- Also known as: “Grit, Texas” and “Grit, TX”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mason.
Mason
Town
Photo: GeoffreyLong, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mason is a city in and the county seat of Mason County, Texas, United States. The city is an agricultural community on Comanche Creek southwest of Mason Mountain, on the Edwards Plateau and part of the Llano Uplift. Its population was 2,121 at the 2020 census. Mason is situated 6 miles southeast of Grit.
Grit
- Categories: ghost town, unincorporated community in the United States, and locality
- Location: Mason, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
30.78323° or 30° 46′ 60″ northLongitude
-99.32006° or 99° 19′ 12″ westElevation
1,716 feet (523 metres)Open location code
8622QMMH+7XOpenStreetMap ID
node 151380705OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
“Grit” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Grit”
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