Pecan Gap, Texas, Delta County. (original) (raw)

Pecan Gap Texas city hall and fire department

The road to Pecan Gap Cemetery
Photo courtesy Mike Price, April 2008

History in a Pecan Shell

Indeed, named for a grove of Pecan trees, the community was settled around 1884 and the Pecan Gap Baptist Church marks that year as their beginning. Early settlers came from Arkansas. The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad arrived in 1888 and built a depot. The town (almost) instantly became a shipping point for Delta County farmers and the population was soon approaching 500. By 1910 the population had grown to 600 but by 1929 it was back to 500, declining to just over 400 by the mid-1930s. By 1989 the population was 296 which has since declined to the current (2010) 203.

Annual Event:

Pecan Festival - Second Saturday of October

Pecan Gap Texas post offices TX 75469

Pecan Gap Texas post offices

Another view of the US Post Office in Pecan Gap
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2006

Pecan Gap Texas Grain elevators and feed store

Pecan Gap Texas old mill

Site of Hockaday Homestead near Pecan Gap Texas

Site of Hockaday Homestead historical marker
Photo courtesy Mike Price, April 2008

TX Delta County 1940s Map

1940s map showing Pecan Gap in extreme NW Delta County
From Texas state map #4335
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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