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'''Drop''' is an unincorporated community in Denton County, Texas, United States.<ref name=GNIS1/>
The early settlement was a supply point for the surrounding agricultural community.
==History== Settlers arrived in the area in 1854 and established towns within a larger community called the Denton Creek Settlement.<ref>{{cite web | title = Drop Community | publisher = Justin Texas Area Historical Society | url = https://www.justintexashistory.com/NearbyTownHistories.html | accessdate = April 20, 2023}}</ref><ref name="TE">{{cite web | title = Drop, Texas | publisher = Texas Escapes | url = http://www.texasescapes.com/CentralTexasTownsNorth/Drop-Texas.htm | accessdate = April 20, 2023}}</ref> Drop was founded within the Denton Creek Settlement in 1882 and operated a post office from 1886 to 1905.<ref name="Hervey">{{cite book | last = Hervey | first = Hollace | title = Historic Denton County, An Illustrated History | publisher = Historical Publishing Network | year = 2002 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Kv8cdMN99r0C&pg=PP1 | pages = 15, 16| isbn = 9781893619074 }}</ref> A school was built in 1922 and had three teachers.<ref name="Hervey"/> It operated until 1935, when students began attending school in Justin.<ref name="Hervey"/> The early Drop community had two stores and two churches, and for recreation, residents would go swimming at Drop Crossing on nearby Oliver Creek.<ref name="Hervey"/> The primary agricultural product on the farms surrounding Drop was wheat and Drop was a supply point for local farmers.<ref name="Hervey"/><ref name="Minor">{{cite web | last = Minor | first = David | title = Drop, TX | publisher = Texas State Historical Association | url = https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/drop-tx | accessdate = April 20, 2023}}</ref>
Business and people from Drop and other nearby communities began moving to Justin after a railroad was built there in the late 1800s.<ref name="TE"/> Drop had a population of 38 in 1936 and 30 in 1963.<ref name="TE"/>
==Geography== Drop is located on Farm to Market Road 1384 in southwest Denton County, {{convert|4|mi|km|abbr=on}} northwest of Justin.<ref name="Minor"/>
Dew Drop Airport is a private, grass covered airport located east of the settlement.<ref>{{cite web | title = Dew Drop Airport (05TS) Information | publisher = Airport-Data | url = https://www.airport-data.com/airport/05TS/ | accessdate = April 20, 2023}}</ref>
==In popular culture== Drop was one of the settings in the 1990 film ''Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will?''<ref name="Hervey"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Denton County, Texas}} {{authority control}}
Category:Unincorporated communities in Texas Category:Unincorporated communities in Denton County, Texas Category:1882 establishments in Texas