Cisco is a city in Eastland County, Texas. The population was 3,899 at the grow old of the 2010 census.

Cisco, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 183 and Interstate 20 in northwestern Eastland County, traces its history encourage to 1878 or 1879, when Rev. C. G. Stevens arrived in the area, established a declare office and a church, and called the frontier settlement “Red Gap”. About six families were already vivacious nearby, and W. T. Caldwell was government a gathering a half mile to the west. In 1881, the Houston and Texas Central Railway crossed the Texas and Pacific, which had come through the year before, at a point near Red Gap, and the settlement’s inhabitants moved their town to the crossing. The date the rails crossed, May 17, 1881, is considered by some to be Cisco’s “birthday.” Three years later, the town was officially official and a further post office granted; the town’s say was tainted to “Cisco” for John J. Cisco, a New York financier largely answerable for the building of the Houston and Texas Central.

Railroads continued to shape the progress of Cisco as the Texas and Pacific acquired lots in the town and sold them to immigrants attracted by brochures touting the town as the “Gate City of the West”. Once settlers arrived, agricultural agents employed by the railroad advised them what and considering to reforest and upon occasion provided the seed.

During the 1880s, a Mrs. Haws built and managed the first hotel, and Mrs. J. D. Alexander brought the first “millinery and fancy goods” to town. Following a practice common at the time, religious groups in Cisco met together for prayer meetings in the schoolhouse until they could construct separate churches. By 1892, Cisco was a growing community following two newspapers, a bank, and an economy based on trade, ranching, fruit farming, and the limestone, coal, and iron ore friendly nearby. A broom factory and roller corn and flour mills were among the town’s 56 businesses.