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Noelke, Texas
Noelke is on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa
Fe Railroad and a local road ten miles southwest of Mertzon in south
central Irion County. The small settlement began as Monument Switch on
the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway when the road built through
the area in 1910. The community was renamed Noelke in 1933 in honor of
a local ranch owner, Walter Montgomery Noelke. The Monument switch
continued in service in Noelke for some time after that, but county
maps of the 1980s show only the location of the Noelke community.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Leta Crawford, A History of Irion County, Texas
(Waco: Texian, 1966). Irion County Historical Society, A History of
Irion County, Texas (San Angelo: Anchor, 1978). John Leeds Kerr
and Frank Donovan, Destination Topolobampo: The Kansas City, Mexico
& Orient Railway (San Marino, California: Golden West, 1968).
Charles G. Davis
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