Horsehead Crossing

Ghost town · Crane County, Texas

Imperial quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1974, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Horsehead Crossing is a ghost town in Crane County, Texas. It is the only former community in Crane County recorded on the federal names register, out of 445 across Texas.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Horsehead Crossing as a historical populated place on the Imperial topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 31.2849° N, 102.7435° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangle	Imperial
Elevation	2,390 ft
Nearest living town	Imperial, TX
Distance to it	3.1 miles
GNIS feature ID	2034906
Coordinates	31.28486, -102.74348

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What's there now

Horsehead Crossing is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Imperial, TX (population 276), about 3.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 2,390 feet above sea level. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Baldridge, Texas
ghost town · Pecos County · 19.2 mi
Edruvera
ghost town · Crockett County · 26.3 mi
Pyote
ghost town · Ward County · 28.6 mi
Upland
ghost town · Upton County · 45.4 mi

Sources and licences

USGS Geographic Names Information System (Domestic Names) — GNIS Domestic Names, feature record (public-domain)
U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line and ACS — Census Gazetteer + ACS 5-year population (public-domain)

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.