Hockley County, Texas
Opdyke
Located about five miles east of Levelland in central Hockley County. The town was named either for Charles W. Opdyke, an early director of the Santa Fe railroad line, or for a family member of W. A. Dykes, who by 1937 had established the first gin at the community. The settlement was begun in 1925 as a shipping point for the railroad and grew to a population of about fifty by 1945. During the 1940s and 1950s it had the gin and a combination service station-general store.
Used with permission of the Texas State Historical Association, Denton.
Opdyke West
Name from the nearby settlement of Opdyke, several years it was a trailer-house park. It was incorporated in 1984, in part to capitalize on liquor sales in an otherwise dry region. Though its population was more than 200 at the time of incorporation, the decline in the oil industry during the mid-1980s reduced the number of residents to about 160
Used with permission of the Texas State Historical Association, Denton.
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