Posey, Texas

Posey, Texas
Unincorporated community

Posey Cotton Gin
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Location of Posey in Texas

Coordinates: 33°28′57″N 101°42′37″W / 33.48250°N 101.71028°W / 33.48250; -101.71028Coordinates: 33°28′57″N 101°42′37″W / 33.48250°N 101.71028°W / 33.48250; -101.71028[1]
Country  United States
State  Texas
County Lubbock
Region Llano Estacado
Established 1936
Founded by James B. Posey
Elevation[1] 3,146 ft (959 m)
Population (2000)
 • Total 125
Time zone CST (UTC-6)
ZIP code 79364
Area code 806
Website Handbook of Texas
Immanuel Lutheran Church in Posey

Posey is a small, unincorporated, community located on the level plains of the Llano Estacado about 11 mi (18 km) southeast of Lubbock in southeastern Lubbock County, Texas.

History

According to the wife of John E. Williams, a great grandson of James B. Posey and a great nephew of Walter S. Posey, the events that led to the naming of Posey are as follows: In 1904, James B. Posey and Lewis T. Lester purchased controlling interest in First National Bank of Lubbock. Later, in 1908, the James B. Posey family purchased a farm between Lubbock and Slaton and built a house on what later proved to be in the center of the survey of the proposed Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The family moved the house about a mile north and when the railroad was established, a switch was installed on the original site of the Posey house and subsequently named “Posey Switch”. Later, when a community grew up around Posey Switch, the name was abbreviated to “Posey”.[2]

According to the Handbook of Texas, the community of Posey was officially founded in 1936 with a population of twenty-five and three businesses.[3] Posey grew to a population of seventy by 1941 and by then it had a church, a school, a grain elevator, and two businesses.[3] The Posey school was consolidated with those of Slaton by the 1960s, and today the community has an active cotton gin, a Lutheran church, and a few scattered homes.

With regard to transportation, Posey is well situated. U.S. Highway 84 runs along the east side of Posey and Farm to Market Road 1585 passes to the south.[4] The BNSF Railway now owns and operates the tracks on the east side of town, but passenger service was discontinued long ago and the many freight trains that pass through the area rarely pause in the vicinity of Posey Switch.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Posey". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ Mrs. J.E. Williams, "Posey, Texas Forum," Texas Escapes Online Magazine, http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasTowns/Posey-Texas.htm#name, accessed December 25, 2011.
  3. 1 2 Mark Odintz, "Posey, TX (Lubbock County)," Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hlp42, accessed December 24, 2011, Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
  4. ↑ Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "Farm to Market Road No. 1585". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation.
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