Early Childress, TX Street Names

April 5, 1926, the Childress City Council voted to rename all streets throughout the city. East/west avenues were to be letters of the alphabet and north/south streets were consecutive numbers. Prior to that time many streets carried the names of early citizens.

R.E. Montgomery, general agent for the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad, laid out the townsite and named the streets. Some streets were named for friends of Montgomery and newer residents of the city.

Street Name-- Named For

Albert-- Dr. J.W. Albert, Childress' second doctor

Anna-- Anna Crenshaw, wife of first postmaster

Bell-- Fort Worth lawyer

Brown-- Charles Brown, cowman and real estate promotor

Campbell-- H.H. Campbell, foreman of the Matador Ranch

Carter-- Quanah, TX family (friends of Montgomery)

Caswell-- Resident of Iowa (friend of Montgomery)

Cole-- Unknown

Cottle-- Named for county south of Childress

Crenshaw-- Mack Crenshaw, first postmaster

Davidson-- Sam Davidson, of Fort Worth & owner of Diamond Tail Ranch

Dickson-- W.L.R. Dickson, first general store operator of Childress

Dwight-- Oliver Dwight, first hotel operator

Ewing-- Ed Ewing, early settler

Estes-- Fred Estes, first county assessor

Fires-- Judge A.J. Fires, first county judge

Hancock-- Melin Hancock, ranch foreman

Johnson-- A local farmer

Jones-- Organizer of original town site & county surveyor

Judy-- C. Judy, a settler east of town whose wife laundered for the cowboys

Killough-- Unknown

Lawton-- Unknown

Meyer-- Unknown

Mundy-- Harry Mundy, first county sheriff

OX-- OX Ranch

Perry-- John W. Perry, first bridegroom in county and Shoe Nail ranchman

Reed-- James A. Reed

Roussean-- (Friend of Montgomery)

Swearingen-- Matt S. Swearingen, rancher & first county commissioner of Precinct 1

Van Hoy-- J.T. Van Hoy, first county clerk

Warren-- (Montgomery's lawyer)

Waysman-- (Friend of Montgomery)

Wilkinson-- T.A. Wilkinson, first county attorney

Wood-- O.P. Wood, merchant and partner in W.L.R. Dickson Mercantile Store

Compiled by Clemi Blackburn from information found in:

The Childress County Story by Michael G. Ehrle