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Sweetwater is a city in Nolan County, Texas. The population was 11,415 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Nolan County. Sweetwater was named for Sweetwater Creek and known as Sweet Water by postal authorities until 1918. To encourage the railroads Sweetwater increased its water supply by building a small town lake in 1898 and, more ambitiously, Lake Trammell (1914), Lake Sweetwater (1929-30), and Oak Creek Reservoir (1950-52). Railroad shops have provided a steady payroll over the years. The Gulf refinery operated there from 1929 to 1954, and at one time the town was a large telegraph center. In 1998 the Texas Department of Agriculture listed the nearby Blue Goose Ranch, established in 1889, in its Family Land Heritage Program, which recognizes farms and ranches that have been in continuous agricultural operation by the same family for 100 years or more. www.tshaonline.org www.sweetwatertexas.org