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Texas
Ghost Town JUDKINS,
TEXASEctor County,
West Texas
Highway
80 and the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Population : 0
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History
in a Pecan Shell
The town was named for landowner Frank Judkins and
was established as a station on the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1880. Early settlement
included German farmers who transmigrated from East Texas.
Judkins had
its own post office by 1905 .The drought of 1910 broght farming to an abrupt halt
and the would-be farmers went looking for greener and wetter pastures.
There were only fifteen people left in 1920 - the year an oil boom materialized.
Judkins "second chance" was lost when most of the new residents moved on to the
brighter lights of Penwell - just four miles distant.
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