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DARROUZETT,
TEXAS
Lipscomb
County, Texas Panhandle
36° 26' 46" N, 100° 19' 29" W (36.446111, -100.324722)
State Highway 15
3.6 mile S of the Oklahoma
State Line
18 miles N of Lipscomb the county
seat
15 miles E of Booker
31 miles E of Perryton
ZIP code 79024
Area code 806
Population: 342 Est. (2019)
350 (2010) 303 (2000) 343 (1990)
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Platted at the
junction of Plummer and Kiowa creeks, the town had been originally
named Lourwood after Opal Lourwood, the first child born there. Things
took off in 1919-20 when the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway was completed.
About that time Lourwood was renamed after Texas legislator John Louis
Darrouzett, who was also a lawyer for the Santa Fe Railroad. People
in Sunset, Oklahoma moved across the state line for the advantages
that the rail connection provided.
By 1920 Darrouzett's population of 425 had their own school, two churches
and the post office. The Darrouzett Cooperative Association was formed
and by 1930 the town had several grain elevators built to promote
the town as a center for grain. Darrouzett was once billed as "the
best paved town per capita of the Panhandle."
The 1984 population of 444 has declined to the present 350. |
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