Pyron, Texas

The Handbook of Texas says Pyron, seventeen miles southeast of Snyder, had both a school and a post office by 1900, and that the school building was also used for church services. The gin was sold and moved away in 1920, and in 1948 the school was consolidated with those of Hermleigh and Roscoe. Pyron counted ten people in 1910 and twenty-five through each of the next three decades. By 1980 no population was reported at all.

What the plaque says

(Former Townsite .5 miles South) Once a thriving community. Named for Bob Pyron, a rancher who settled on nearby Buffalo Creek before 1890. School was first held in his cellar. In 1900 town was founded and in 1910 citizens moved 4 miles southeast to be on Santa Fe Railroad. Pyron grew to include 2-story hotel, Odd Fellows Hall, stores, and a cotton gin. But it declined after a major highway bypassed this site. Post office closed 1952 and today only the railroad crossing sign and a few houses remain. Old settlers gather yearly at cemetery to exchange reminiscences. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Scurry County Museum — 13 mi
  Snyder's county museum on the Western Texas College campus, with the rifle used to shoot the white buffalo, an 1878 chuckwagon and the millionth barrel of the Canyon Reef oil boom.
• National WASP WWII Museum — 17 mi
  Hangar 1 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, where the women of the WASP trained to fly every aircraft in the Army's arsenal in World War II, then waited thirty-three years to be called veterans.
• Heart of West Texas Museum — 18 mi
  Colorado City's museum in a restored downtown house, from a mammoth dug up at Lake Champion in 2001 to an Ice Age bison and the wartime telegrams sent to a local family.
• Pioneer Museum — 20 mi
  Nolan County's settlement story in a dozen rooms of Judge R. A. Ragland's 1906 house in Sweetwater, a town that started as a dugout store for buffalo hunters and a post office called Blue Goose.

More markers nearby

• Old Town of Camp Springs — 10 mi
• Dunn — 11 mi
• Hobbs Cemetery — 13 mi
• Home County of Famous Frontiersman J. Wright Mooar — 13 mi