Welcome to Ideal ...

So far, we found very little information about Ideal. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Ideal to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Ideal - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Ideal, please Contact Us.

Ideal was located in the Texas Panhandle.

While we don't have the exact location of Ideal , we believe that it would have been located within present day Sherman County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Ideal, you might consider that their post office opened in 1907.

Time Zone: The area where Ideal was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Ideal would have been located in the (806) area code.

Communities Also Named Ideal ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named Ideal - they are located in Georgia, Illinois, Manitoba, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Dakota.

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

Adding Ideal to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Ideal 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 Ideal was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Ideal post office opened in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Ideal.

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Ideal, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Sherman, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/