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Badger was located on the Missouri Pacific Railroad northeast of the present Judkins switch in south central Ector County. The station was established on the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1926, and the settlement profited from an oil boom in the late 1920s. Its population reached 200 before falling off to forty by 1940. A permanent community never developed, and only a depot and one supply house were built. In 1980 county maps showed no evidence of the former station. from the Handbook of Texas Online
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Badger, Texas, reportedly a populated place, was located
2 miles northeast of Judkins, Texas, on U. S. Highway 80 and the
Texas & Pacific railroad in southwestern Ector County. Although
it sat beside the railroad, Badger did not originate as a point
on the railroad. Badger developed as a result of the oil
discovery on 28 December 1926 in nearby Penwell field. In the
oil boom that followed, Badger came into existence at sometime
in 1927. By 1933 the community reported one business and a
population of 200 and that population figure remained until
sometime during World War II. After the war and through 1947
population showed a decline to fifty, still served by one
business. Before 1949 both the population and the business
disappeared and Badger, Texas, was not listed among Texas
populated places by later issues of Texas Almanac or by John
Clements in Flying the Colors (1984). No post office, school,
church, or cemetery was found at Badger, Texas.
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