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Whiteface is a town in east central Cochran County, Texas, on State Highway 114 about forty-five miles west of Lubbock, on the high plains of the Llano Estacado at an elevation of about 3,681 feet.

The town takes its name from rancher C. C. Slaughter's Whiteface Camp and Whiteface Pasture, which were themselves named for the white-faced Hereford cattle on his ranch.

In 1924 Slaughter's son-in-law, Ira P. DeLoach, staked off the Whiteface townsite and held a barbecue to help sell farmland and town lots.

In 1925 the residents moved their young town several miles southwest so it would sit on the South Plains and Santa Fe Railway then being completed from Lubbock to Bledsoe.

Oil was discovered in the Slaughter fields south of Whiteface in 1937, and the town reached its peak population of an estimated 600 residents in 1941.

Whiteface was incorporated in 1945, and a brick high school was built in 1947.

In July 1949, Amelia Anthony relocated Girlstown, U.S.A., a home for girls, from Buffalo Gap to Whiteface, bringing its first nine girls to the town.

The old Whiteface Hotel has been preserved and now serves as a museum.

The 2020 census counted 375 people in Whiteface, living in 133 households, and just over half of the town's residents were Hispanic or Latino.

Whiteface is served by the Whiteface Consolidated Independent School District and is home to the Whiteface High School Antelopes.