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LELIA LAKE , TEXAS

Donley County, Texas Panhandle
Highway 287
58 miles E of Amarillo
Population: 125 (1990)

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Lelia Lake School Photo Courtesy Erik Whetstone

History in a Pecan Shell

Named after Lelia Payne, the sister-in-law of the first judge for Donley County, the word lake was later added since Wheeler County had a Lela.

It began life in the late 1880s along the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway. The depot was one of the first buildings. In 1894 the first school opened .

Population:
1925: 150 (estimate)
1927: 300
1929: 500
1933: 150
1947: 500
1950: 300
1970: 175

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