Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Quail, TX

Quail is an unincorporated community in central Collingsworth County in the Texas Panhandle, at the intersection of State Highway 203 and Farm Road 1574.

Quail was named for the abundance of quail found in the vicinity when the community was settled.

The first families in the Quail area were those of brothers W. I. and T. S. Atkinson, who built dugout homesteads in November 1890 and became the first people to grow cotton in Collingsworth County.

A post office was established at Quail in 1902 with Sam Wilson as postmaster, and the first school building had been erected by 1904, the same year Greer Powell started a cotton gin in the community.

Baptist and Methodist congregations had organized at Quail by 1909, with the Church of Christ following several years later.

In 1910 Wade Arnold began publishing the Quail Feather, the only newspaper the community ever had, and Dr. Ed Beck opened the Quail Mercantile Company.

The Texas Legislature created the Quail Independent School District in 1920, and a new $17,000 school building was completed in 1927 and enlarged as a consolidated school in 1935.

In 1930 Quail had fifteen businesses and a population of 300.

Quail's population declined through the twentieth century, falling to 250 in 1940, 200 in 1960, ninety-five in 1970, and just thirty-three in 2000.

Quail sits at about 2,230 feet above sea level on the High Plains and keeps its own ZIP Code, 79251.