Lefors, Texas
| Lefors, Texas | |
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| Coordinates: 35°26′20″N 100°48′13″W / 35.43889°N 100.80361°WCoordinates: 35°26′20″N 100°48′13″W / 35.43889°N 100.80361°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Texas |
| County | Gray |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jeanne Swires |
| • Founded By | Travis Leach, Perry LeFors, and Henry Thut, and Henry B. Lovett |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.4 sq mi (1.0 km2) |
| • Land | 0.4 sq mi (1.0 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 2,805 ft (855 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 497 |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 79054 |
| Area code(s) | 806 |
| FIPS code | 48-42148 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1361049 |
Lefors (/lᵻˈfɔərz/ le-FORZ) is a town in Gray County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Pampa, Texas Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 497 at the 2010 census.
The area around modern Lefors was near the heart of Comancheria and a common village site for the nomadic tribes of Comanche.
Randolph Marcy's 1852 expedition passed this way. The Battle of the North Fork of the Red River, between the U.S. Army under the command of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie and the Comanche, was fought near here on September 29, 1872. The Cheyenne chief Grey Beard's band was attacked near here in 1874 by the U.S. army.
Lefors was founded in 1888 by Travis Leach, Perry LeFors, Henry Thut, and Henry B. Lovett. The town was named for Perry LeFors, who traveled with his father to the Panhandle in 1878 and later became foreman of the Diamond F Ranch, a part of the Francklyn Land and Cattle Company, which became insolvent in 1886 and became the White Deer Lands Trust Company, of which Timothy Dwight Hobart was the agent.
In 1882, the first homestead on the future townsite was laid by Travis Leach, a rancher and surveyor, whose log cabin served as a stagecoach stop on the mail route from Fort Elliott and Mobeetie to Tascosa. Henry B. Lovett, a former buffalo hunter, and Henry Thut, a Swiss immigrant whose sister-in-law, Emma Lang, married LeFors, also settled in the vicinity during the 1880s. George Henry Saunders had a ranch camp headquarters nearby.
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