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Texas Ghost
Town
BIPPUS, TEXAS
Deaf Smith County,
Texas
Panhandle
Unnumbered County Road
11 miles S of the Oldham County Line
11 miles East of the New Mexico Line
West of Amarillo
Population: ?
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The church in Bippus
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, 2005 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
The town was settled on land that had been part of the huge XIT Ranch.
In 1910 or thereabouts several families bought small parcels from
the ranch. They built their homes within a ten-mile radius of one
another – pretty close by West
Texas standards. A Russian immigrant named Geo. Bippus donated
land for a school building and the town was named in his honor.
During the sweeping school consolidations across the state in the
late 1940s and early 1950s, the Bippus school was consolidated with
Walcott ISD. A community building was serving the needs of local residents
in the 1980s according to the Handbook of Texas. |
Bippus,
Texas Forum
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