Kirkland, Texas<\/h3>
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Kirkland is an unincorporated community in southeastern Childress County, Texas, United States.[1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 102 in 2000. \n<\/p>
Kirkland was most likely named for an early settler called J. C. Kirkland. Originally, it was located on a stage route from Wichita Falls to Mobeetie in Hardeman County, seven miles northeast of the current location. Early in the 1880s, a stagecoach and relay station was erected there. Soon after, the town had two saloons, a general store, and a traveler's inn. The town's residents transferred it into Childress County to be on the new line when the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway arrived in 1887. John Quincy Adams, a nearby homesteader whose land the railroad tracks were installed on, platted the new townsite. Kirkland prospered as more farmers moved there, and by 1890 it had a post office, a mercantile store, and cattle shipping pens. The town's expansion was momentarily halted by the panic of 1893, but by 1900 it was once again thriving. When Crone W. Furr founded his first mercantile store in Kirkland in 1905, the Furr's Grocery and Cafeteria corporations were born. Known as the \"Biggest Little City in Texas,\" Kirkland boasted many enterprises by the 1920s, including a bank, three hardware stores, two lumber yards, two grocery stores, two barbershops, and five filling stations. In 1940, there were 500 residents. After that, though, Kirkland saw a slow drop due to better transportation and modern farming techniques. As of 1980, the town's significance as a wheat-shipping hub was confirmed by the presence of three grain elevators, despite the absence of two churches and one general shop. Kirkland had a population of 100 in 1984 and got two new residents six years later. The population remained at 102 in 2000.[2] Its population went down to 44 in 2010, then to 25 in 2019.[3]<\/p><\/div>\n