Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Ackerly Historic District Ackerly, TX

Ackerly is a small city that straddles the Dawson–Martin county line in West Texas, on U.S. Highway 87.

Ackerly was established in 1923, when the vast Slaughter Ranch was broken up and sold off as small farming tracts.

The town was named for its founder, Paul Ackerly, a Georgian who promoted the new farming community.

A post office opened in Ackerly in 1924, and a school district was organized around the same time from pieces of Dawson, Borden, Martin, and Howard counties.

At its peak in 1948, Ackerly had about 500 residents, four cotton gins, and some thirty businesses serving the surrounding cotton country.

Ackerly was incorporated in the early 1960s, decades after its founding as an unincorporated farm town.

In 1995, a local farmer plowing his cotton field discovered the Ackerly meteorite, a space rock now named for the town.

The 2020 census counted 264 people in Ackerly, and the median resident age was just 33 years.

Back in 2000, Ackerly's 245 residents lived in just 80 households, reflecting the city's tiny footprint of about 0.3 square miles.

Ackerly is served by the Sands Consolidated Independent School District.