FINLAY, TEXAS

Texas Ghost Town
Hudspeth County, West Texas

31° 15' 31" N, 105° 37' 48" W (31.258611, -105.63)

On the Southern Pacific Railroad
17 miles W of Sierra Blanca the county seat
W of Van Horn
SE of Fort Hancock & El Paso
Population: 0

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History in a Pecan Shell

Named after settler J. R. Finlay, who also loaned his name for the nearby mountain range, a post office was established in 1890 but never officially opened. A second one was established in 1903 and in 1914 the town was described as "a rural post office" on the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway.

The town's most notable business was a grocery. By the mid-1930s Finlay's estimated population was twenty-five but the town seems to have grown during the Great Depression. In the mid 1940s there were 100 Findlayans there, but in the early 1970s it was only a railroad stop.

Cover canceled with Finlay TX 1906 postmark
Courtesy The John J. Germann Collection

Hudspeth County 1940s map showing Finlay W of Sierra Blanca
From Texas state map #4335
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

Take a road trip

Finlay, Texas Nearby Towns:
Sierra Blanca
Van Horn | Fort Hancock | El Paso
See Hudspeth County

West Texas

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