Official Name: | Sulphur, Texas |
Settlement Type: | Ghost town |
Pushpin Map: | Texas#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Sulphur |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Texas |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Bowie |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 236 |
Coordinates: | 33.3128°N -94.0558°W |
Area Code: | 430 & 903 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1384147 |
Sulphur is a ghost town in Bowie County, Texas, United States.
Sulphur may have been settled when the Texas Pacific Railway was built through the area in the 1870s. A post office was established at Sulphur in 1874 and remained in operation until 1899, with L.C. Leeds as postmaster. Its name was changed to Sulphur Station. It had a gristmill and three mills for lumber, shingles, and planing in 1884 and reported a population of 300. It went down to 100 from 1890 to 1896. There were a few scattered houses in Sulphur in 1936 and was only referred to as Sulphur. It may have been the site of another post office from 1903 to 1904. The community disappeared in 1984.[1]
Sulphur was on the eastern end of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Sulphur River, 10miles south of Texarkana.[1]
Sulphur is located within the Liberty-Eylau Independent School District.