Jud is a
ghost town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
in extreme western
Haskell County, Texas, United States.
It lies on
FM 617, west of
Rochester. The
Double Mountain Fork and
Salt Fork Brazos River
The Salt Fork Brazos River is a braided, highly intermittent stream about long, heading along the edge of the Llano Estacado about east-southeast of Lubbock, Texas. From its source, it flows generally east-southeastward to join the Double Moun ...
merge approximately west of present-day Jud to form the
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 ...
.
History
Jud is a farming community with ruins of an old Baptist church being the only building left standing. Each summer, a music festival named JUD FEST takes place with performances by local and regional Texas country artists and a meat cookoff.
See also
*
Kiowa Peak (Texas)
*
Rath City, Texas, another ghost town on the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos
*
Double Mountains (Texas)
References
External links
Jud Fest website
Ghost towns in North Texas
Geography of Haskell County, Texas
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