LUBBOCK COUNTY, Texas — If you’ve ever driven out towards the Idalou Egg Ranch, you may have been asking yourself, “Where in the Heckville am I?” In northeastern Lubbock County sits a small unincorporated community that doesn’t look like much, but used to be home to a few booming businesses.
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EverythingLubbock.com will be exploring “ghost towns” on the South Plains, to learn and share a little bit more about the history of some of the area’s unincorporated communities.
An article featured on Texas Almanac and the Texas State Historical Association gives a historic overview of Heckville, Texas. The small community is located on North Farm to Market Road 400, seven miles north of Idalou in Lubbock County.
“The community was named for Henry Heck, who built a gin there around 1948,” TSHA said.
Heckville never recorded a population over 20 but businesses during the 1940s and 1950s included a gas station, a cafe, a general store and a blacksmith shop…