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Van Horn is the western terminus of U.S. Route 90; from Van Horn it leads southeast 73 miles (117 km) to Marfa. Texas State Highway 54 leads north from Van Horn 65 miles (105 km) to Pine Springs and the Guadalupe Mountains. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km 2), all land. [5]
The unforgiving desert that surrounds Van Horn, a town of less than 2,000 people in Far West Texas, has forged a culture of self reliance and a community where everyone looks out for each other.
Culberson County Hospital and Van Horn Rural Clinic. According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 3,813 square miles (9,880 km 2), of which 3,813 square miles (9,880 km 2) are land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) (0.01%) is covered by water. [29] It is the fifth-largest county by area in Texas.
John Smith sold the ranch to Judge Jesse Coleman Hunter of Van Horn, Texas for $55,000 in 1942 and moved to Hawley, Texas. Hunter assembled the "Guadalupe Mountains Ranch" of 43,000 acres (17,000 ha), producing, among other things, mohair wool. The ranch house was the home of ranch foreman Noel Kincaid from 1942 to 1969.
In 2004, Bezos purchased the 30,000-acre Figure 2 Ranch just north of Van Horn. Now known as Corn Ranch, the property has grown to 400,000 acres and is the launch site for Blue Origin, the ...
The Figure 2 Ranch is located in present-day Culberson County, Texas, founded in 1890 by James Monroe Daugherty, a cattle rancher who owned ranches in several states prior to this date. The site was the scene of one of the last battles between the Texas Rangers and the Apache Indians .
State Highway 54 (SH 54) is a 55.2-mile (88.8 km) highway maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) that runs from Interstate 10 and U.S. Route 90 in Van Horn north to US 62 and US 180 between Salt Flat and Pine Springs near Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
Culberson County Airport (IATA: VHN, ICAO: KVHN, FAA LID: VHN) is a county-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) northeast of the central business district of Van Horn, a town in Culberson County, Texas, United States. [1]