Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Farwell, TX

Farwell is a city in and the county seat of Parmer County, Texas, sitting directly on the Texas-New Mexico state line, with the city of Texico, New Mexico, just across the border.

Farwell began as a cow camp for the XIT Ranch and was named for brothers Charles B. and John V. Farwell of Illinois, who built the Texas State Capitol in exchange for about 3,050,000 acres of Panhandle ranchland.

The XIT Ranch that gave rise to Farwell employed some 800 cowboys and strung more than 6,000 miles of barbed wire, and the Farwell townsite was surveyed in 1905 where the railroad entered New Mexico.

Farwell famously won the Parmer County seat in a 1908 revote after officials ruled that cowboys should vote where they did their laundry - and Farwell had the only laundry in the county at the time, so it received the cowboy vote even though nearby Friona was about four times its size.

The Parmer County Courthouse in Farwell, a brick Texas Renaissance-style building, was erected in 1916 on the town square.

Farwell had a population of 1,425 at the 2020 census, living in 519 households.

Farwell lies on the level high plains of the Llano Estacado at an elevation of 4,144 feet, at the junction of U.S. Highways 60 and 84, about 10 miles east of Clovis, New Mexico.

Farwell sits inside the disputed Texas-New Mexico border strip: an 1859 survey mistakenly placed the boundary up to about 3.77 miles too far west, and New Mexico once considered suing in the U.S. Supreme Court to reclaim the strip, though the land remains taxed and governed by Texas.

Farwell is served by the Farwell Independent School District, and singer-songwriter Charlie Phillips, who wrote the hit "Sugartime," was a Farwell native.