Quitaque is located in southeastern Briscoe County. Comanchero trader José Piedad Tafoya was the first settler in the area. he operated a trading post there. Charles Goodnight suggested the name Quitaque which he believed was an Indian word for ‘end of the trail’. In 1891 A. R. Jago built a store there and the first cotton crop was harvested. Numerous Russian pines had been planted by citizens throughout the town as part of a state beautification program. Every three years, Quitaque hosts a City Homecoming Celebration. The Texas high-school and college football coach Gene Mayfield was born in Quitaque in 1928.
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