Farmers Valley
Farmers Valley is at the intersection of Farm roads 925 and
392, nine miles west of Vernon and one mile east of the Hardeman
county line in west central Wilbarger County.
A small community
had been established in the area when a school was built in 1887.
By the early 1900s it had grown to include a Methodist congregation
established in 1881, a cotton gin, and a combination grocery store
and service station. The Methodists built their church building
about 1922. The school was renamed Wells Chapel in 1924 and served
the area until it was consolidated with the Chillicothe school
in 1946. Farmers Valley population was reported at twenty-five
during the 1930s and 1940s and fifty in later records. The Methodist
church dissolved in the late 1970s, and the gin closed in 1982.
The reported population was fifty in 1990 and again in 2000.
Source: Wilbarger County Historical Commission,
Wilbarger County (Lubbock, 1986).