Canyon, Lubbock County, Texas

Canyon is an unincorporated community in Lubbock County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 40 in 2000. It is located within the Lubbock metropolitan area.

History
Canyon served as a meeting place for a Church of Christ congregation in the 1890s. It also went by the name Wheelock. It remained a small farming community with no businesses in the mid-1980s. Its population was 40 from 1990 through 2000.

Geography
Canyon is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 1729 and 40, 6 mi east of Lubbock in east-central Lubbock County.

Education
Canyon served as the location of an 1890s school. The community was also known as Canyon School at different points in time. In the 1920s, Canyon became a county rural school district. However, in 1935, it was combined with the McClung and Acuff districts, which were comparable, to establish the Roosevelt Independent School District.