Dime Box, Texas

About Dime Box

Dime Box, TX is a small unincorporated community located in central Texas.

Dime Box holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 0.72 square miles.

📰 Dime Box News Today

• Treat of the Day: 2026 Dime Box Homecoming Festival with Rusty Surette as Grand Marshal of parade KBTX News 3 · Oct 5
• Weather Forecast and Conditions for Dime Box, Texas - The Weather Channel | Weather.com The Weather Channel · Jul 21
• Dime Box Weather Today & Hourly Forecast SpaceRef · Aug 29
• Man arrested after explosive devices found in Dime Box KVUE · Jan 14
• 72-year-old arrested in Dime Box explosives investigation KEYE · Jan 15

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

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What Makes Dime Box Unique

• The only place in America named Dime Box — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Part of the fabric of Texas — one of 1,863 recognized communities statewide.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 12 miles.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Dime Box

• Lake Somerville State Park - Nails Creek Unit reviews ★
• Somerville Wildlife Management Area reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

🏫 Schools in Dime Box

• DIME BOX SCHOOL

Public schools, U.S. Dept. of Education (NCES) 2023–24 directory.

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