Texas Highways Magazine

There Will Be Oil

Crude Awakening

Spindletop, the landmark gusher near Beaumont, put Texas on the oil map in 1901 and began shifting the state’s economic focus from agriculture to petroleum. Three decades later, wildcatters near the East Texas town of Kilgore tapped into an even larger reservoir of oil—one that continues to produce today.

Kilgore’s population ballooned from a few hundred to more than 10,000 in

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