Lipscomb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,059. Its county seat is Lipscomb. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1887. It is named for Judge Abner Smith Lipscomb, a secretary of state of the Republic of Texas.
Lipscomb County courthouse in Lipscomb. Shown here undergoing restoration in May 2020.
U.S. Highway 83 (USĀ 83), dedicated as the Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway, is a U.S. Highway in the U.S. state of Texas that begins at US 77 in Brownsville and follows the Rio Grande to Laredo, then heads north through Abilene to the Oklahoma state line north of Perryton, the seat of Ochiltree County.
Scenic section of the Texas Hill Country north of Leakey
An abandoned hotel and restaurant (built 1926) at Catarina on US 83 near Carrizo Springs
U.S. Highway 83 in a major retail district of McAllen in 2005. I-2 was cosigned on this part of the route in 2013