Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Fluvanna, TX

Fluvanna is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northwestern Scurry County, West Texas, sitting high atop the caprock just south of the Llano Estacado.

Fluvanna was established in 1908 by realty promoters who knew in advance that the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway would terminate at the site to satisfy the 50 miles of line required by its charter — the townsite was staked out and lots were on sale before the railroad even arrived.

Fluvanna is named for a surveyor's home county — Fluvanna County, Virginia.

Fluvanna boomed briefly after the rails arrived: by 1911 it had two real estate offices, a thirty-room hotel, a lumberyard, a cotton gin, and other businesses, and its population was estimated at 500 in 1915.

The town's days as a shipping center ended when the railroad closed the Fluvanna station in 1941 and major highways bypassed the area; the tracks were removed the following year.

The Fluvanna Mercantile Company, founded in 1915, was a pioneer general store that bartered with local families during the Great Depression, trading store goods for cream and eggs; it earned an official Texas historical marker in 1970.

Fluvanna had just 78 residents at the 2020 census, down from the roughly 180 reported through the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000 — and although its post office has closed, the area still keeps the 79517 ZIP code.