WEBB, TX (WEBB COUNTY) WEBB, TEXAS (Webb County). Webb is just
off Interstate Highway 35, twenty miles north of Laredo in Webb
County. It was established as a shipping point on the
International-Great Northern Railroad in 1881 and in 1890 had a
station on the San Antonio division of the railroad. The town
derived its name from that of the county. A Webb post office,
established in 1909, was still in operation in 1980. In 1914 the
community had a population of 100 and a telephone connection.
Hugh Larimer ran a general store, C. H. Clifton was a prominent
cattle breeder, and J. E. Hill was the grocer. In 1936 Webb had
a population of twenty-five and two businesses. A Webb school
was operating in 1942. The population rose by 1957 to forty and
remained at that number until 1982; during this time the
community supported two businesses. In 1990 the population was
still a recorded forty. Thomas Estell Terry, A Survey and
Proposed Plan for the Reorganization of the Public Schools of
Webb County, Texas (M.A. thesis, U