diff --git a/app/concerns/fetchable.rb b/app/concerns/fetchable.rb
index e8daa10955..e78d6436a8 100644
--- a/app/concerns/fetchable.rb
+++ b/app/concerns/fetchable.rb
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ module Fetchable
                                swf
                                tar
                                tgz
-                               txt
                                wav
                                wmv
                                wsdl
diff --git a/app/models/searchgov_url.rb b/app/models/searchgov_url.rb
index b65b6449e5..c68692d126 100644
--- a/app/models/searchgov_url.rb
+++ b/app/models/searchgov_url.rb
@@ -4,14 +4,15 @@ class SearchgovUrl < ActiveRecord::Base
   include ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper
 
   MAX_DOC_SIZE = 15.megabytes
-  SUPPORTED_CONTENT_TYPES = %w(
+  SUPPORTED_CONTENT_TYPES = %w[
                                 text/html
+                                text/plain
                                 application/msword
                                 application/pdf
                                 application/vnd.ms-excel
                                 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
                                 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
-                              )
+                              ]
 
   attr_accessible :last_crawl_status, :last_crawled_at, :url, :lastmod
   attr_reader :response, :document, :tempfile
@@ -167,7 +168,7 @@ def url_without_protocol
 
   def parse_document
     Rails.logger.info "[SearchgovUrl] Parsing document for #{url}"
-    if /^application/ === response.content_type.mime_type
+    if /^application|text\/plain/ === response.content_type.mime_type
       ApplicationDocument.new(document: download.open, url: url)
     else
       HtmlDocument.new(document: response.to_s, url: url)
diff --git a/spec/models/searchgov_url_spec.rb b/spec/models/searchgov_url_spec.rb
index 0ec76c2f66..3dbe2c6216 100644
--- a/spec/models/searchgov_url_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/searchgov_url_spec.rb
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
 
     before do
       allow(searchgov_url).to receive(:searchgov_domain).and_return(searchgov_domain)
+      allow(I14yDocument).to receive(:create)
     end
 
     context 'when the fetch is successful' do
@@ -404,6 +405,30 @@
       end
     end
 
+    context 'when the url points to a TXT doc (.txt)' do
+      let(:url) { 'https://www.irs.gov/test.txt' }
+
+      before do
+        stub_request(:get, url).
+          to_return(status: 200,
+                    body: 'This is my text content.',
+                    headers: { content_type: 'text/plain' })
+      end
+
+      it 'fetches and indexes the document' do
+        expect(I14yDocument).to receive(:create).
+          with(hash_including(
+            handle: 'searchgov',
+            path: 'https://www.irs.gov/test.txt',
+            title: 'test.txt',
+            description: nil,
+            content: 'This is my text content.',
+            language: 'en'
+        ))
+        fetch
+      end
+    end
+
     context 'when the request fails' do
       before do
         stub_request(:get, url).to_raise(StandardError.new('faaaaail'))
diff --git a/spec/vcr_cassettes/searchgov_url_fetch/when_the_url_points_to_a_txt_doc_/txt_.yml b/spec/vcr_cassettes/searchgov_url_fetch/when_the_url_points_to_a_txt_doc_/txt_.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..73e83623ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/vcr_cassettes/searchgov_url_fetch/when_the_url_points_to_a_txt_doc_/txt_.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+---
+http_interactions:
+- request:
+    method: post
+    uri: http://localhost:9998/rmeta/form/text
+    body:
+      encoding: UTF-8
+      string: "-----------------------4c3920e9b4798e45290007b7ee45b0c93db035b4ed\r\nContent-Disposition:
+        form-data; name=\"upload\"; filename=\"SearchgovUrl:154275270720181120-34326-1v398b6\"\r\nContent-Type:
+        application/octet-stream\r\n\r\nThis is my text content.\n\r\n-----------------------4c3920e9b4798e45290007b7ee45b0c93db035b4ed--"
+    headers:
+      Connection:
+      - Keep-Alive
+      Content-Type:
+      - multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------4c3920e9b4798e45290007b7ee45b0c93db035b4ed
+      Content-Length:
+      - '308'
+      Host:
+      - localhost:9998
+      User-Agent:
+      - http.rb/1.0.4
+  response:
+    status:
+      code: 200
+      message: OK
+    headers:
+      Date:
+      - Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:25:07 GMT
+      Content-Type:
+      - application/json
+      Transfer-Encoding:
+      - chunked
+      Server:
+      - Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
+    body:
+      encoding: UTF-8
+      string: '[{"Content-Encoding":"ISO-8859-1","Content-Type":"text/plain; charset\u003dISO-8859-1","X-Parsed-By":["org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser","org.apache.tika.parser.txt.TXTParser"],"X-TIKA:content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis
+        is my text content.\n\n","X-TIKA:parse_time_millis":"29"}]'
+    http_version: 
+  recorded_at: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:25:07 GMT
+recorded_with: VCR 4.0.0