ETHOLEN

NAME: Etholen COUNTY: Hudspeth ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Ok BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime

COMMENTS: Etholen. Post office 1884/ 1884. REMAINS: Nothing left

Etholen. A switch on the sp rr 4 mi w of sierra blanca in south central hudspeth county. According to one source a post office had been opened and closed there before 1884, although other sources hold tha the community was not established until around 1885. Etholen seems to have been little more than a railroad station; in 1945 its population was fewer than twenty five, and it no longer appeared on maps of the area by themid 1960's. The community was reportedly named for etholen knobs, a nearby cluster of buttes. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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