Newest Texas Town Has a New City Hall

Texas’ newest town now has a city hall.

Ellinger residents voted to incorporate into a city in Nov. 2020, and it remains the most recent Texas entity to do so.

Thursday, members of their city council and other residents and special guests gathered to celebrate the ribbon cutting for Ellinger’s new city hall.

The city hall has actually been open since the first of the year and will be open Fridays from 2-4 p.m.

“We’re a small town with a small building,” said Mayor Matt Mikulenka of the modularstyle structure on the corner of Ross and Shumacher Streets.

But the building will be important, he said, as a place to store records and simply to have a physical address for the city headquarters. That physical address is 101 West Shumacher, Ellinger, Texas 78938.

The new city hall is just one of a number of exciting things happening in Ellinger, Mikulenka said.

There’s a new 18-apartment complex being built in town. Hruska’s Store and Bakery is planning to build a new store across Highway 71 from their current location, and Ellinger is in the midst of as $1.2 million water improvement project.

They also plan to build a helipad behind city hall for easier access for emergency helicopter access in town.

And the small city hall won’t be permanent.

Eventually, though officials said this might take “10 or 20 years,” they want to build a larger city hall on the same block and turn the portable building into storage.

“Go Ellinger” someone shouted as Mikulenka cut the ribbon Thursday with the big pair of ceremonial scissors.