Landergin

Overview

A ranch stop on the plains

Landergin sits on the high plains of south-central Oldham County, halfway between Adrian and Vega. Pat H. and John Landergin, cattlemen who later helped found Vega, set up a ranch headquarters here in 1906. When the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway built through in 1908, they opened a supply store by the railroad switch, and a small community grew up around it. It never had a post office.

Route 66 came past in 1926, on a road just north of the tracks, and moved to a new paved line south of them by 1936. That year Landergin reported one store and 15 people; TheRoute-66.com gives a 1930s peak of 36. Adrian and Vega took most of the business. In the 1980s the site had a grain elevator, a filling station and a roadside café, and in the late 1990s George and Melba Rook ran Route 66 Antiques and the Neon Soda Saloon here.

Interstate 40 now covers the 1936 highway. What's left is on the north side of the frontage road at the County Road 29 exit: an empty truck stop, other shuttered buildings and a grain elevator. The record is thin: the newest dated report is a 2023 dashcam pass on I-40, and we found none from anyone who stopped.

Timeline

Ranch, railroad, highway

1. 1906Pat H. and John Landergin set up a ranch headquarters here and open a store.
2. 1908The Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway builds through and puts in a switch. A small community grows around the Landergins' supply store. Mail comes from Vega.
3. 1926US 66 is designated along the road just north of the railroad.
4. 1936Landergin reports one store and 15 people. A new paved Route 66 runs on the south side of the tracks.
5. 1980sA grain elevator, a filling station and a roadside café mark the site.
6. Late 1990sThe last businesses are Route 66 Antiques and the Neon Soda Saloon, run by George and Melba Rook.

What's here

By exit 28

TheRoute-66.com describes "empty, abandoned buildings on the north side of I-40's frontage road, by Exit 28": a former truck stop and, next to it, a grain elevator from the days of the railroad. The Rock Island tracks have since been taken up. The 1926 roadbed ran about 100 yards north of today's interstate. Its pages don't give a date for the visit.

A dashcam drive west on I-40, posted in September 2023, passes the site in a few seconds. It shows the tall concrete elevator by the overpass and a long line of semitrailers, boxes and vehicles along the north side of the highway; the same row shows on the aerial below. We can't tell from it whether any business is open.

• Closed truck stop and roadside buildings
• Grain elevator
• Line of the 1926 Route 66, north of the old railroad

The historic maps below show the site. The 1954 sheet marks a grain elevator on US 66 and the railroad between Adrian and Vega. The 1966 sheet names Landergin at the crossing of a north–south road with US 66 and the tracks, and the 1985 sheet shows the I-40 interchange, with Gist Lake to the southwest.

Historic maps

Landergin on USGS maps, 1954–1985

Crops from the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, centered on the townsite. Each sheet shows what surveyors mapped that year; compare them with today's topo and aerial on this page.

19541:250,00019661:24,00019851:100,000

Map & directions

Getting there

Landergin is at the County Road 29 exit of I-40, about 9 minutes west of Vega. From Amarillo it's about 50 minutes west on I-40. Both routes end at the foot of the exit ramp.

Base map: USGS The National Map (public domain). Routes: OSRM on © OpenStreetMap contributors data (ODbL), computed October 2026. Times assume dry roads.

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Other sites near Landergin

Straight-line distance from the townsite to other mapped sites in our Texas index.

• Boise17.4 mi W · Oldham
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• Tascosa24.8 mi NE · Oldham
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Sources

Sources and credits

1. Hugh Allen Anderson, "Landergin, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (accessed October 22, 2026): location, the 1906 ranch, the Landergins and Vega, the 1908 railroad and store, mail from Vega, 1936 store and population, the 1980s grain elevator, filling station and café.
2. Wikipedia, "Landergin, Texas", retrieved October 2026: the 1908 founding, the Landergin ranch, the 1936 figures, coordinates (GNIS).
3. TheRoute-66.com, "Landergin" (undated; read October 2026): exit 28 and County Road 29, the 1906 store and 1908 siding, the 1930s peak of 36, the Rooks' businesses, the 1926 and 1936 alignments, the empty truck stop and grain elevator.
4. willie really, "Vega | Landergin | Adrian | Texas I-40 | old Route 66 | JttW e23-30", YouTube, posted September 3, 2023: the dashcam pass by the site (chapter at 8:20), the elevator and the row of trailers and vehicles.
5. Elevation: USGS 3D Elevation Program point query. Routes: OSRM on OpenStreetMap data, October 2026.

Photo and map credits

• Area base map, topo and aerial imagery: USGS The National Map (public domain).
• Historic maps: USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain): Tucumcari 1954, 1:250,000; Landergin 1966, 1:24,000; Vega 1985, 1:100,000.