OPTIMO

NAME: OPTIMO COUNTY: MORA ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Relax. Sitback and enjoy our weather! BEST TIME TO VISIT: any time

COMMENTS: OPTIMO. Post office 1909/1947. REMAINS: You will have to ask locally.

OPTIMO. Span. 'best, very good'. Farming and ranching community 1 mi E of US 85 and 9 mi SW of Wagon Mound. Formerly called TIPTON. The railroad imported settlerts from Pennsylvania who were called Dunkards, a sect of the German-American Baptists. They settled on land E of the railroad right of way and attempted farming. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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