Kimball - Texas Ghost Town

KIMBALL

NAME: Kimball
COUNTY: Bosque
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 3
CLIMATE: Warm winter, hot summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Winter, spring, fall

COMMENTS: In Kimball Bend Park.
REMAINS: Unkown.

Richard B. Kimball, a NewYork lawyer, and an associate founded the town about 1854. Kimball was located on the Chisholm Trail where it crossed the Brazos River. This was the place where thousands of cattle crossed the river on the way north to Abilene and Wichita, Kansas. It required about ten years before Kimball began to grow into a town of any importance and that was when the cattle drives north crossed the Brazos at Kimball. The demise of Kimball began in 1875 with the shift of cattle drives to the westward. In 1881, the Santa Fe Railway laid track through the region missing Kimball by several miles. The town, in time, became little more than a wide place in the road. In the late 1940s, the U.S. Corps of Engineers bought out the few remaining residents to make way for the construction of the Whitney Dam on the Brazos River. The townsite today is in Kimball Bend Park at the south end of Texas Highway 174 in Bosque County. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

Richard B. Kimball, a NewYork lawyer, and an associate founded the town about 1854. Kimball was located on the Chisholm Trail where it crossed the Brazos River. This was the place where thousands of cattle crossed the river on the way north to Abilene and Wichita, Kansas. It required about ten years before Kimball began to grow into a town of any importance and that was when the cattle drives north crossed the Brazos at Kimball. The demise of Kimball began in 1875 with the shift of cattle drives to the westward. In 1881, the Santa Fe Railway laid track through the region missing Kimball by several miles. The town, in time, became little more than a wide place in the road. In the late 1940s, the U.S. Corps of Engineers bought out the few remaining residents to make way for the construction of the Whitney Dam on the Brazos River. The townsite today is in Kimball Bend Park at the south end of Texas Highway 174 in Bosque County. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

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