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Clairemont

Ghost town · Kent County, Texas

Clairemont West quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000)
Clairemont West quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

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

At its height the population reached about 15.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Clairemont as a historical populated place: 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 33.1664° N, 100.7525° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Texas before 1931 that mention “Clairemont”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 87 pages in all.

Key facts

Peak population15
Last recorded population15
Elevation2,128 ft
Nearest living townJayton, TX
Distance to it11.8 miles
Coordinates33.16639, -100.75250

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Clairemont today, aerial view
Clairemont West quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000)

Left: Clairemont West quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Clairemont is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Jayton, TX (population 446), about 11.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 2,128 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Images

Photograph of the original Kent County, Texas courthouse taken in October 2019.
Photograph of the original Kent County, Texas courthouse taken in October 2019. · Aualliso / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Sources and licences

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 2026-11-06.