Sligo, Yoakum County, Texas
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Pat and Kate McHugh, brother and sister ranchers named the settlement after Sligo County in Ireland. Currently Located at 33.0456566, -102.6982579 / 33deg 2' 44.36" N, 102deg 41' 53.73" W.
Note: All map locations are approximate.
- 1903: Sligo was granted a post office, with Kate McHugh as postmistress. The post office operated from the McHugh’s dugout.
- 1920: The post office was discontinued and Plains became the local post office.
- 1923: the state legislature established the Sligo Independent School District which became the Sligo Consolidated Independent School District in 1932.
After two schools burned - students were sent to Denver City. The remains of a school building at Sligo was all that was left by 1980.
Sligo is on a local road just south of Farm Road 213 thirteen miles northeast of Denver City and sixteen miles southeast of Plains in southeast Yoakum County. Pat and Kate McHugh, brother and sister who owned a local ranch, named the settlement for Sligo County in their Irish homeland. Sligo was the site of an early post office, established in 1903 with Kate McHugh as postmistress and discontinued and moved to Plains on April 30, 1920. In 1923 the state legislature established the Sligo Independent School District. In 1932 it was consolidated with the Fairview Common School District to form the Sligo Consolidated Independent School District. After two schools at Sligo burned, students were transferred to the Denver City Independent School District, as of September 1, 1959. In 1959 the dugout the McHughs used as a home and post office still remained. In 1980 county maps showed only the remains of a school building at Sligo.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Arthur Hecht, comp., Postal History in the Texas Panhandle (Canyon, Texas: Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1960)
Handbook of Texas Online, Charles G. Davis, "SLIGO, TX"