The county was named for Abner S. Lipscomb Lipscomb County was formed by the Texas legislature in 1876 from the Bexar District. When it was learned that the railroad would miss the site, local residents decided to protect their town by making it the county seat. As a result, the populace voted to organize the county in June of 1887 with Lipscomb as the county seat. When the railroad entered the county later in the year, land promoters laid out Higgins on the right-of-way. Higgins soon grew into the county's largest town and trade center, but Lipscomb remained the county seat. -Handbook of Texas Online: Lipscomb County. The 100th meridian was defined as the Eastern boundary in the Adams-Onis treaty of 1819, but was originally surveyed 134 miles long, but 3600 to 3700 feet too far west. A U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1930 moved the eastern boundary of Lipscomb, Hemphill, Wheeler, Childress and Collingsworth Counties east to the true meridian. The only town affected was Higgins, in Lipscomb County. -Handbook of Texas Online: Boundaries