Rule

Rule is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 380 and State Highway 6, about fifty-five miles north of Abilene in western Haskell County. The community, established in anticipation of the arrival of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, was named in honor of William A. Rule, Sr., a railroad official. A post office opened there in May 1903, and the first train arrived in 1905. J. L. Jones, who provided land for the townsite, and A. C. Foster invested in a hotel, gins, and other enterprises to get the town started. Jones organized a bank in 1906, the year the town's first newspaper began publication. Rule was incorporated on August 31, 1909, with a mayor-council form of city government