ENNIS, a city of Ellis county, Texas, U.S.A., 33m. S.S.E. of Dallas, on Federal highway 75, and served by the Southern Pacific and the Texas Midland railways. The population was 7,224 in 1920 (27% negroes), and was 7,069 in 1930 by the Federal census. Ellis county is one of the principal cotton growing counties in the country (13o,690 bales in 1926), and the city's chief industries are cotton gins and compresses and cotton-seed oil mills. It has railroad shops also. Ennis was settled in 1871 and incorporated as a city in 1872.