It hosting companies an yearly Youth Rodeo and will be a popular springtime destination for looking at the popular Tx bluebonnets and additional wildflowers. It may have slipped a little in population since then (5,731 in 2000), but proceeds to end up being a growing city. It had been included as Yóakum in 1888, and by 1917 it had been a bustling city of even more than 7,500 spirits when the Yoakum Cover and Leather Co. The little settlement was big as a gathering spot for herds to end up being pushed up the Chisholm Path, but proceeded to go from tending cattle to tending steam engines when the train showed up in 1887 and produced a lot of work opportunities. Yoakum sits rectangle on the boundary line between DeWitt and Lavaca counties and has since 1835, before Texas divided itself from Mexico via the AIamo and San Jacintó.