This city was founded in 1876 on Hords Creek, which sits on an area of rolling, grassy plains and wide bottom lands. This is a typical frontier settlement where the first store was hardly completed before a cemetery was laid out for the loser in a gunfight. Today this city is the seat of Coleman County. The area is still devoted to the business of ranching and receives additional income from oil, natural gas, limestone and high-grade glass sand from the Santa Anna Mountain, which is eight miles to the southeast.
Things to do in Coleman
City Park
This City Park includes a museum and a pioneer blacksmith shop. There are also picnic and playground areas to enjoy along Hords Creek. Located at US 283 North.
Coleman County Museum
Displays include pioneer clothes, dishes, farm equipment, documents, saddles, barbed wire and a larger-than-life horse statue, which was brought to Coleman in 1884 to display saddles. Open May - August; Friday - Monday and holidays from noon - 5pm and in September; Saturday - Sunday and holidays from noon - 5pm.
Coleman's PRCA Rodeo
Coleman is known for its tough stock of talented cowboys and during the last week of June they face off in a competitive rodeo.
Hords Creek Lake
Located on Hords Creek in Coleman County about 10-miles west of Coleman.
Lake Coleman
Located on the Jim Ned Creek in Coleman County about 13-miles north of Coleman.
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