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Arispe, Texas
Arispe (also known as La Valley is a ghost town in Hudspeth County, Texas. Founded in 1885, it was built around a railroad station house. At its peak in the early 20th century, the community had fifty-seven residents. Now mostly deserted except for a railroad switch, the former town is crossed by Interstate 10 Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System of the United States. It is the fourth-longest Interstate in the country at , following I-90, I-80, and I-40. It was part of the origina .... References Hudspeth County, Texas 1885 establishments in Texas Populated places established in 1885 {{HudspethCountyTX-geo-stub ...
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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 economic activity that supported it (usually industrial or agricultural) has failed or ended for any reason (e.g. a host ore deposit exhausted by mining). The town may have also declined because of natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, prolonged Drought, droughts, extreme heat or extreme cold, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, pollution, or nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, nuclear and radiation-related accidents and incidents. The term can sometimes refer to cities, towns, and neighborhoods that, though still populated, are significantly less so than in past years; for example, those affected by high levels of unemployment and dereliction. Some ghost towns, especially those that preserve period-specific ...
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Hudspeth County
Hudspeth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,432. Its county seat is Sierra Blanca, and the largest community is Fort Hancock. The county is named for Claude Benton Hudspeth, a state senator and United States Representative from El Paso. It is northeast of the Mexico–U.S. border. Hudspeth County is included in the El Paso Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. Hudspeth County is one of two Texas counties to entirely observe Mountain Time, along with neighboring El Paso County, while Culberson County partly observes it (in the northwestern region, as the rest of the county observes Central Time). History Prehistoric Jornada Mogollón peoples Texas Beyond History were practicing agriculture in the Rio Grande floodplain ''circa'' 900–1350 AD. These people left behind artifacts and pictographs as evidence of their presence. Texas B ...
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Texas
Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and has Mexico-United States border, an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest. Texas has Texas Gulf Coast, a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Covering and with over 31 million residents as of 2024, it is the second-largest state List of U.S. states and territories by area, by area and List of U.S. states and territories by population, population. Texas is nicknamed the ''Lone Star State'' for its former status as the independent Republic of Texas. Spain was the first European country to Spanish Texas, claim and control Texas. Following French colonization of Texas, a short-lived colony controlled by France, Mexico ...
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Interstate 10
Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System of the United States. It is the fourth-longest Interstate in the country at , following I-90, I-80, and I-40. It was part of the originally planned Interstate Highway network that was laid out in 1956, and its last section was completed in 1990. I-10 stretches from the Pacific Ocean at State Route 1 (SR 1, Pacific Coast Highway) in Santa Monica, California, to I-95 in Jacksonville, Florida. Other major cities connected by I-10 include (from west to east) Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Cruces, El Paso, San Antonio, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Gulfport, Mobile, Pensacola, and Tallahassee. Over one-third of its total length is within the state of Texas, where the freeway spans the state at its widest breadth. Route description , - , CA , , - , AZ , , - , NM , , - , TX , , - , LA , , - , MS , , - , AL , , - , FL , , - , Total , Cal ...
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Hudspeth County, Texas
Hudspeth County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 3,432. Its county seat is Sierra Blanca, Texas, Sierra Blanca, and the largest community is Fort Hancock, Texas, Fort Hancock. The county is named for Claude Benton Hudspeth, a Texas Legislature, state senator and Member of Congress, United States Representative from El Paso, Texas, El Paso. It is northeast of the Mexico–United States border, Mexico–U.S. border. Hudspeth County is included in the El Paso, Texas, El Paso El Paso metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. Hudspeth County is one of two Texas counties to entirely observe Mountain Time Zone, Mountain Time, along with neighboring El Paso County, Texas, El Paso County, while Culberson County, Texas, Culberson County partly observes it (in the northwestern region, as the re ...
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1885 Establishments In Texas
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