Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Roby, TX

Roby is a city in central Fisher County and has served as the county seat since winning the county-seat election in April 1886.

Roby was platted in 1885 by Mississippi developers M. L. and D. C. Roby, who bought over 4,000 acres and set out to build the county seat on their land; their rival town of Fisher is now known as North Roby.

Construction began on Roby's first courthouse in 1886, the same year a school and post office opened, when the community had just thirteen houses.

Roby received its first railroad, the Texas Central, in 1907, and incorporated in 1915; a 4.4-mile Roby and Northern line was laid to connect Roby with North Roby.

Roby peaked as a trade center for area farmers and ranchers in 1950, with about 1,040 residents and sixty businesses.

Unlike many Texas county seats, Roby has had three different courthouses; the current brick Moderne-style Fisher County Courthouse was completed in 1973.

The 2020 census counted 591 residents in Roby, living in 244 households.

In 1996, forty-two Roby residents — remembered as the "Roby 42" — pooled $10 each and won a $46 million Texas Lottery jackpot on Thanksgiving, instantly making roughly 6 to 7 percent of the town's population millionaires before taxes.

Roby is surrounded by wide cotton fields, and Fisher County is known as a quail-hunting destination, hosting the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch on U.S. Highway 180.

Roby suffered chronic water shortages for decades until 1953, when water was finally piped in from Oak Creek Lake during a long drought.