Omaha got its name from a raffle in 1886 when several men from Randolph County, Alabama decided to change the name of Gavett which was given by the US Post Office as a replacement for its initial name of Morristown. Its first name was given by former Confederate Lieutenant Thompson Morris in 1880. Hugh Ellis was the winner when his name was drawn from a hat and he chose Omaha which was a town in his home state of Alabama. With a total area of 1.2 square miles, the city reached a population of 986 in 2017. Omaha is located on FM144 at the St. Louis Southwestern Railway and U.S. Highway 67 ten miles north of Daingerfield in north-central Morris County. Omaha was incorporated in 1914 and became the site of a vegetable-plant shipping operation that shipped millions of seedlings throughout the United States during the 20th century. Also, the City of Omaha is served by the Pewitt Consolidated Independent School District. Prominent persons were Randolph E. Moore (1988 Texas Baseball Hall of Fame in Arlington), Jimmy Wilkerson (2005 NFL player for Kansas City Chiefs), and J. D. Kimmel (Houston Cougars Hall of Honor in 1973).
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