Morton, TX

Morton is a city in and the county seat of Cochran County, Texas, United States. Famous cattle baron Christopher C. Slaughter died in 1919, and in 1921, his heirs dissolved his cattle company. The Morton High School mascot is the Indians. A newcomer can read Morton through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Morton comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Morton lies on the western extreme of the Central Time Zone, just over 16 miles east of the Mountain Time Zone. Morton is home to a large sandhill crane migration each autumn.