Bula ( ) is an
unincorporated community
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in
Bailey County,
Texas
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, United States. According to the
Handbook of Texas
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, the community had a population of 35 in 2000.
History
The community of Bula was established in 1924 and was originally given the name Newsome for W.B. Newsome. He and his brother, Tom, sold their ranch and divided it into of farms in 1924–25. Due to a conflict with another Texas
post office with the same name, the name was changed to Bula in 1925. It was given this name in honor of either Bula Maude Oakes, who was a daughter of
Methodist
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preacher Roma A. Oakes, or Bula Thorn, who was the wife of the community's first postmaster, William H. Thorn. Bula had a cotton gin in 1929 but never grew significantly. By 1980, the population had risen to only 105, then dropped to 35 in 2000.
Although it is unincorporated, Bula has a post office, with the ZIP code of 79324.
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Geography
Bula is located on the level plains of the Llano Estacado
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in the southeast corner of Bailey County, about southeast of the county seat of Muleshoe, and east of the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge. It is located on Farm to Market Roads 54 and 37, to the west of Littlefield, the county seat of Lamb County. It is also located northwest of Lubbock
Lubbock ( )
is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 272,086 in 2024, Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the ...
, south of Circle Back, and southeast of Needmore.
Education
Bula had a school in 1925, which later moved and then closed in 1975.[ The school then burned sometime after.]
See also
*Eastern New Mexico
Eastern New Mexico is a physiographic subregion within the U.S. state of New Mexico. The region is sometimes called the " High Plains", or "Eastern Plains (of New Mexico)", and was historically referred to as part of the "Great American Desert". T ...
*Llano Estacado
The Llano Estacado (), sometimes translated into English as the Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. One of the largest mesas or tablelands on the North A ...
* Needmore
*Pep
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* Pep band, an ensemble of instrumentalists
* Pep (dog) (c. 1923–1930), Labrador Retriever sent to the Eastern State Penitentiary
* Pep, the dog in Putt-Putt (series), ''Putt-Putt'' (series)
* Pep ...
* Texas Panhandle
*West Texas
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References
External links
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Public domain photos of the Llano Estacado
Unincorporated communities in Bailey County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
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