IVAN, TEXAS

Stephens County, Texas Panhandle / Central Texas North

Highway 67 at FM 1148
North of Breckenridge the county seat
South of Graham
North of Eastland
Population 15 est. (2000)

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"Eyes on Ivan" - Ivan, Texas, 1920s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com

History in a Pecan Shell

Ivan is a gateway to the Possum Kingdom State Recreation Area. The Handbook of Texas is short on facts, but they allow that J. O. Brockman named the town for his son and that the Ivan post office opened at the close of the 19th Century and shut its doors in 1953.

The population high-water mark was sixty-one Ivanites in 1920 but it decreased to a mere 15 from the 1970s to the 90s. Today the only visible business is a bar at the juncture of the above roads.

The only building in Ivan

TE photo Feb. 2004

Stephens County 1907 postal map showing Ivan
(between Breckenridge and Graham)
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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Ivan, Texas Nearby Towns:
Breckenridge the county seat
Graham | Eastland
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