William and Mary McGill Humphries settled near springs on Little Mustang Creek in 1836 and called the settlement that grew up around them Maple Springs. In 1844, the Maple Springs community comprised enough families to support a school and in 1851 along came a post office. In 1880 the settlement divided. The old Maple Springs post office adopted the name of Rosalie and in 1881 a second post office opened a few miles to the west, slightly north of the site of present Bogata. When the United States government refused to accept Maple Springs as the new post office's name, postmaster James E. Horner submitted an alternative. Horner, who had a romantic enthusiasm for Latin-American republican revolution against Spanish rule, suggested the name Bogata', after the Colombian capital, which was the scene of his hero Simon Bolivar's victory in 1814. The suggestion was accepted, but perhaps owing to Horner's penmanship, the name was misspelled B-o-g-a-t-a. The town inhabitants accepted the official spelling but pronounce the name "Buh-goh-ta".
During the 1885 Bogata had two churches, four cotton gins, six gristmills, and a population of 400. The Paris and Mount Pleasant Railway arrived in 1910, causing the town to move its commercial establishments to a new main street nearer the railroad tracks. Train service was discontinued in 1956. The town's population, which grew slowly through the decades when most of the area was losing ground, reached 1,508 in 1980, when Bogata had a 154-bed nursing home, medical and dental clinics, a locally owned bank, and thirty business establishments. In 1990 the population was 1,421 and in 2000 it was 1,396.
CITY OF BOGATA
2023 CALENDAR
(SUBJECT TO FREQUENT EDITS)
EDITED: 3/28/2023
January 2 – New Year’s Holiday – City Offices CLOSED
January 9 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
February 13 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
March 13 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
April 3 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
April 9 – EASTER SUNDAY
May 6 – City Elections and City-Wide Garage Sale
May – 8 - 9 City Wide Clean-up
May 15 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
May 29 – MEMORIAL DAY – City offices CLOSED.
June 5 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
June 22, 23, 24 - Bogata Rodeo
July 3 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
July 4 -INDEPENDENCE DAY – City offices CLOSED.
July 31 - Budget Workshop - 6:00 pm @ City Hall.
August 7 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
Aug 14 - Budget Workshop - 6:00 pm @ City Hall
Aug 21 – Budget Workshop – 6:00 pm @ City Hall
Aug 28 – Budget Workshop – 6:00 pm @ City Hall
September 4 – LABOR DAY – City offices CLOSED.
September 11 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
September 18 – Budget Workshop – 6:00 pm @ City Hall
September 25 – Public Hearing and Budget Adoption and filing 6:00 pm @ Com Center.
October 2 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
October 7 City-Wide Garage Sale
October 11 – 12 City-Wide Clean-up
November 6- City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center.
November 5 – DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS.
November 23 – Thanksgiving Holiday – City offices CLOSED.
December 4 - City Council Meeting 7:00 pm @ Community Center
December 25 – 26 – Christmas Holiday – City offices CLOSED.