EXUM, TEXAS
aka Exum Switch, Texas

Moore or Hartley County, Texas Panhandle

FM 281
About 16 miles NW of Dumas the county seat
Population: 0

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Tank Battery
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, August 2009

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Photographer’s Note:
The map says Exum but the old tank sign reads Exum Switch. There was no road sign.

Strange about the ambiguity of this strange little ghost. Your map showing Exum in Moore has Spur due west in Hartley, right where my Exum is. Notice a second Spur on your map just above Wilcoe. (I am still using my old scroll-loaded ProMap for Windows 3.1.) Whatever the name, Google Maps has the scale house and tanks in Hartley County.
– Barclay Gibson

See 1940 Moore County Map

Exum Switch Tank Sign
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, August 2009

Closed Scale House
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, August 2009

Cotton Scale
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, August 2009
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Exum Switch Tx - Closed Scale House And Tanks

Closed Scale House and Tanks
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, August 2009

Closed Tanks
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, August 2009

Abandoned house
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, August 2009

1940s Moore County map showing Exum
(Above "M" in "M-O-O-R-E".
Just below Sherman County line)
From Texas state map #4335
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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Exum, Texas Nearby Towns:
Dumas the county seat
Cactus
Etter
Amarillo
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EXUM, TEXAS aka Exum Switch, Texas

History in a Pecan Shell

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EXUM, TEXAS
aka Exum Switch, Texas