Soldiers Mound

Ghost town · Dickens County, Texas

Dickens South quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

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

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Soldiers Mound as a historical populated place on the Dickens South 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 33.5226° N, 100.8318° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangle	Dickens South
Elevation	2,376 ft
Nearest living town	Spur, TX
Distance to it	3.4 miles
GNIS feature ID	2034907
Coordinates	33.52259, -100.83180

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What's there now

Soldiers Mound is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Spur, TX (population 746), about 3.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 2,376 feet above sea level. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Clairemont
ghost town · Kent County · 25.1 mi
Oriana
ghost town · Stonewall County · 32.5 mi
Tee Pee City
ghost town · Motley County · 35.1 mi
Narcisso
ghost town · Cottle County · 39 mi
Justiceburg
ghost town · Garza County · 39.6 mi
Estacado
ghost town · Crosby County · 45 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.