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Snipe, Texas
Oyster Creek at the FM 290 bridge
Oyster Creek at the FM 290 bridge
Snipe, Texas is located in Texas
Snipe, Texas
Snipe, Texas
Location in Texas
Country United States
State Texas
County Brazoria
Elevation
30 ft (9 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes
77515
Area code(s) 979
GNIS feature ID 1380567

Snipe is an unincorporated community in central Brazoria County, Texas, United States. It was formerly a distinct community. The location of Snipe is 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Angleton on the Union Pacific Railroad and Oyster Creek. Raymond Weems, Snipe's first postmaster, named Snipe after a facetious reference made about the place by his father's hunting partner.

A post office operated in Snipe from 1921 to 1949; the post office served the Retrieve Prison Farm (now the Wayne Scott Unit).

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