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Seagoville, Texas

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Seagoville (ˈsiːgoʊvɪl ) is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas. A small portion of Seagoville extends into Kaufman County. The population was 18,446 at the 2020 census. The city is located along U.S. Highway 175, from downtown Mesquite. Seagoville was originally called Seago, and under this name was laid out in 1876 by T. K. Seago (1836–1904), and named after him. The United States Post Office changed the town's name to "Seagoville" in 1910 to prevent confusion with another city in Texas called Sego. During World War II, the Federal Reformatory for Women in Seagoville was the site of an Immigration and Naturalization Service detention camp for Japanese, German, and Italian Americans classified as "enemy aliens" and women of Japanese and German ancestry deported from Latin America. Internees at Seagoville published a German language newsletter called the Sägedorfer Fliegende Blätter. The camp housed up to 647 people, and was closed in June 1945, after the internees were either "repatriated" to Japan or Germany, or transferred to Crystal City, Texas. Seagoville is located at (32.651920, –96.550033). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which are land and , or 1.58%, is covered by water. At the 2020 United States census, there were 18,446 people, 4,283 households, and 3,445 families residing in the city. Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville is located in Seagoville. The United States Postal Service operates the Seagoville Post Office on Seagoville Road in Kleberg, Dallas. It was previously located at 314 Glendale Avenue, in a rented facility in Seagoville. Since around 1882 a post office had been located in the Seagoville city limits. In 2011, the USPS announced that it was closing the existing Seagoville post office and consolidating it into the Kleberg Post Office, a USPS-owned facility since renamed to the Seagoville Post Office, citing cost-cutting reasons in response to a budget shortfall.
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