Hobbs is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in west
Fisher County, Texas
Fisher County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,672. The county seat is Roby. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1886. It is named for Samuel Rhoads Fisher, a signe ...
,
United States
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. It is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 611 and 1614, about east of
Snyder. It lies within the physiographic region known as the Rolling Plains in the valley of the
Clear Fork Brazos River
The Clear Fork Brazos River is the longest tributary of the Brazos River of Texas. It originates as a dry channel or draw in Scurry County about northeast of Hermleigh and runs for about through portions of Scurry, Fisher, Jones, Shacke ...
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History
A number of homesteaders moved into the area to form the nucleus of a community in the mid-1880s.
A post office was opened on May 26, 1888, and residents chose the name Hobbs for Vachel Hobbs Anderson, a local settler.
Unfortunately, the post office was discontinued February 15, 1910.
[ By 1914, the community had a general store, telephone service, and a population of 45.][ Hobbs received electricity in 1939, and in 1940, the community had three businesses, a school, a Baptist church, a number of scattered dwellings, and a population of 70. The Hobbs Co-op Cotton Gin was organized in the 1940s. From 1970 through 2000, the population of the community remained steady at an estimated 91.][
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Education
Robert Martin, a Baptist preacher, held camp meetings and opened a school in the community in 1887, using a tent until a combination school and church building was erected the following year.[ The church-school was called Buffalo, for its location on Buffalo Creek, a tributary of the Clear Fork Brazos River.][ Hobbs High School was replaced with a new building in 1956, but was closed in 1989, and pupils are now bused to Rotan, Roby, or Snyder.][
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See also
*Brazos River
The Brazos River ( , ), called the ''Río de los Brazos de Dios'' (translated as "The River of the Arms of God") by early Spanish explorers, is the 14th-longest river in the United States at from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater ...
*Double Mountain Fork Brazos River
The Double Mountain Fork Brazos River is an ephemeral, sandy-braided stream about long, heading on the Llano Estacado of West Texas about southeast of Tahoka, Texas, flowing east-northeast across the western Rolling Plains to join the Salt Fo ...
* Duffy's Peak
*Hobbs, New Mexico
Hobbs is a city in Lea County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 40,508 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, increasing from 34,122 in 2010.
Hobbs is the principal city of the Hobbs, New Mexico micropolitan statistical area ...
*List of ghost towns in Texas
This is an incomplete list of Ghost town, ghost towns in Texas.
Classification
;Barren site
* Sites no longer in existence
* Sites that have been destroyed
* Submerged
* Reverted to pasture
* May have a few difficult-to-find foundations/foo ...
* Wastella, Texas
References
External links
Public domain photos of the Llano Estacado and West Texas
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Unincorporated communities in Texas
Unincorporated communities in Fisher County, Texas
1888 establishments in Texas