Stiles
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 4
- Coordinates
- 31.407, -101.566
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: Bypassed by the railroad and eclipsed when oil was discovered near Big Lake, Stiles was replaced with Big Lake as the county seat in 1925.
History
Stiles is a ghost town in Reagan County, Texas, United States, about 18 mi (29 km) north of Big Lake. As the only town in the area when Reagan County was established in 1903, Stiles was made the county seat. Bypassed by the railroad and eclipsed when oil was discovered near Big Lake, Stiles was replaced with Big Lake as the county seat in 1925.