Hico, TX

ZIP code 76457 covers Mingus and the nearby former company town of Thurber in North Texas. Its best-known landmarks reflect the region’s coal-mining and railroad history: Tarleton State University’s W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, Thurber’s surviving brick smokestack, and St. Barbara’s Catholic Church. The Thurber Historic District preserves traces of the once-thriving mining settlement, which declined after local coal operations ended.