Bula is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 in Bailey County

Bailey County, Texas

Bailey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2010, the population is 7,165. Its county seat is Muleshoe. Bailey is named for Peter James Bailey, a defender of the Alamo...

, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, United States

United States

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History

The community of Bula was established in 1924 and originally given the name Newsome. Due to a conflict with another Texas post office with the same name, the name was changed to Bula in 1925. Bula had a school in 1925 and a cotton gin in 1929 but never grew significantly. By 1980 the population had risen to only 105 then dropped to thirty-five in 2000.

Geography

Bula is located on the southeast side of Bailey County, approximately 22 miles (35 km) southeast of the county seat of Muleshoe

Muleshoe, Texas

Muleshoe is a small city in Bailey County, Texas, United States. The town of Muleshoe was founded in 1913 when the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway built an line from Farwell, Texas to Lubbock through northern Bailey County. In 1926, Muleshoe was incorporated. The population was 5,158 at the 2010...

, and 7 miles (11 km) east of the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge

Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge

Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge is the oldest National Wildlife Refuge in the state of Texas, having been established in 1935. It is located about twenty miles south of Muleshoe, the seat of Bailey County...

. It is located on Farm to Market Road 54 to the west of Littlefield

Littlefield, Texas

Littlefield is a city in and the county seat of Lamb County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,507 at the 2000 census. It is located in a significant cotton growing region, northwest of Lubbock on the Llano Estacado just south of the beginning of the Texas Panhandle...

, the county seat of Lamb County, Texas.

See also

• Eastern New Mexico
  Eastern New Mexico
  Eastern New Mexico is a region of the U.S. state of New Mexico. The region is sometimes termed the "High Plains" or even "Little Texas". The region is largely coterminous with the Llano Estacado. Eastern New Mexico is generally located at an altitude of over 4,000 feet and is mostly characterized...
  
  
• Llano Estacado
  Llano Estacado
  Llano Estacado , commonly known as the Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas, including the South Plains and parts of the Texas Panhandle...
  
  
• Needmore
  Needmore, Bailey County, Texas
  Needmore is an unincorporated community in Bailey County, Texas, United States.-History:Needmore was so named because townsite promoters “needed more” settlers. After the town's founding in the 1920s, it never grew significantly and by 1940 there were only twenty residents and two stores at the site...
  
  
• Pep
  Pep, Texas
  Pep is an unincorporated community in northwestern Hockley County, Texas, United States, situated along FM 303. Although it is unincorporated, Pep has a post office, with the ZIP code of 79353.-Education:...
  
  
• Texas Panhandle
  Texas Panhandle
  The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east...
  
  
• West Texas
  West Texas
  West Texas is a vernacular term applied to a region in the southwestern quadrant of the United States that primarily encompasses the arid and semi-arid lands in the western portion of the state of Texas....