Cuthbert 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
Mitchell County,
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 we ...
, United States. Cuthbert was established in 1890 when the founder D. T. Bozeman built a wagon yard and store.
The community and post office were named for Thomas Cuthbertson, a family friend of the Bozemans.
[ By the early 1920s, Cuthbert had a church, two stores, a blacksmith shop, a cotton gin, telephone office, and a school.][ In 1920, the T. and P. Abrams No. 1 oil well, one of the first commercial oil ventures in the Permian Basin, was drilled just over a mile north of the town. A post office, two businesses, and a population of twenty-five were reported at the community in 1936, the year that its school was consolidated with that of Colorado City. After World War II, the improvement of rural roads in the area led to Cuthbert's decline as it lost its trade to Colorado City. The Cuthbert post office was discontinued ''circa'' 1960, when the town reported one business and a population of twenty-five. By 1974, only a cemetery and scattered farms remained in the area.]
See also
*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 ...
* Texas State Highway 350
* Ira, Texas
*Colorado River (Texas)
The Colorado River is an approximately river in the United States, U.S. state of Texas. It is the 11th longest river in the United States and the longest river with both its source (river or stream), source and its river delta, mouth within Tex ...
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Unincorporated communities in Mitchell County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
Ghost towns in Central Texas
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