Welcome to Dean ...

Dean is located in the Texas Panhandle.

Dean is located in Deaf Smith County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Dean, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1892.

Time Zone: Dean lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The area code for Dean: (806)

Communities Also Named Dean ...

While we believe that this Dean is located in Deaf Smith County, we know of another 3 Texas communities named Dean. Those communities are located in the following counties: Clay, Hockley and Leon County.

Beyond Texas, there are 30 communities that are also named Dean - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas (2), Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina (2), Nova Scotia, Ohio (2), Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee (2), Washington (2) and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Dean.

Adding Dean to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Dean in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Dean was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Dean post office opened in 1892.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Dean.

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Dean. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/