The second in a very short series* of shots from Wingate, another one of the little towns that gets smaller very day.

It’s not like it was ever that big, I guess; the population seems to have peaked at 250 in the 1940s. At that time, the town had a school, a bank, and a post office. In 1991, the school district was absorbed by another town. The population dropped to 132 in 2000, and it wasn’t even listed in the 2010 count.

Wingate, Texas

*Two

photographed 5.3.2009