Biohazard Cleanup Near North Springlake Springlake, TX

Springlake is a small town in Lamb County in the Texas Panhandle, sitting at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 70 and 385, about 22 miles north of Littlefield.

Springlake began in 1908, when the George C. Wright Land Company bought the site from the Halsell Cattle Company and built a store, a hotel, and a post office there that same year.

Springlake takes its name from the Spring Lake Division of the famous XIT Ranch, whose ranch headquarters nearby had run its own post office from 1889 to 1901.

Springlake came within a whisker of becoming the Lamb County seat — in the 1910 election it lost to Olton by a single vote.

The physical town of Springlake actually picked up and moved a few miles southeast in 1927, leaving its original cemetery behind at the first townsite.

Springlake peaked at about 250 residents in 1950, when it had a grain elevator and a flour mill, and it counted 145 residents in the 2020 census.

In the 2000 census Springlake's 135 residents lived in just 54 households, a reminder of how small this farming town is.

Springlake covers just 1.0 square mile of land in north-central Lamb County, in the heart of High Plains cotton and grain country.

Springlake was the hometown of Bill W. Clayton, who went on to serve as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.