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Texas
Ghost Town STUDY
BUTTE, TEXASBrewster
County, West Texas
Hwy 170 and 118
5 miles East of Terlingua
78 miles South of Alpine
Population: Study Butte-Terlingua CDP. 267 (2000) 120 (1990) |
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Study
(rhymes with duty) Butte (rhymes with fruit) has about the same history as Terlingua
(rhymes with nothing). Both were economically tied to the mining of mercury and
both experienced the same booms and busts.
One of the differences the
towns have is that Study Butte was named after Will Study and Terlingua wasn't.
If you're planning on visiting the area, you're bound to see them both.
Study Butte has a big arroyo running through it and fewer no trespassing
signs. Terlingua has the picturesque cemetery. |
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Butte Texas ForumAs
is often the case, I found your site while searching Google--this time for information
on Study Butte and Terlingua. Your description of Study Butte, comparing and contrasting
it with Terlingua, is *FABULOUS* and right on the mark. ... Thanks for the laughs,
the information and the great photos. - King Douglas, January 12, 2005
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was planning to stay one evening in Terlingua or Study Buttes in Brewster County
before going into Big Bend National park for a couple of days. Can you hear me
laughing with embarrassment from there. I have a 1996 Rand McNally Travel Atlas
and it shows Mentone and Terilingua as in the same population symbol as Gladewater,
Texas (the town I grew up in about 6000 people). I also have a 1997 Texas Road
Map and it shows all three towns. It uses the 25,000 and under population size
marker for all three towns. It never occurred to me to verify how many people
were actually in the town. After reading your site I read the population counts
on the Texas Road map: Mentone has 50 people Terlingua has 25 people Study Butte
has 120 people. .. I enjoyed your Texas Ghost town site. - Alvin Bittner, December
20, 2001
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