King County, Texas ||| 6666 Ranch ||| Exploring the 3rd LEAST POPULATED county in the USA
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What is life like in one of the least populated places in the country? King County ranks as the third smallest populated county with just 265 people. You might think it doesn't have much to see, but I would disagree. The county seat of Guthrie holds most of the population and business, including the well-known 6666 Ranch made famous by the television show Yellowstone. But there are also some interesting ghost towns and history to be found outside of Guthrie. I had a lot of fun exploring King County!
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If I had the money to relocate, I would go off grid here. Thanks for having me along.
I think a lot of us would! 😂
I agree! We have seriously talked a moving to Texas.
Hell yeah I'd move now if my wife would let me
I checked out the cemetery online and it was 100% photographed, all four headstones. Someone took the trouble to go out to the middle of nowhere, and as you showed it is way out on the dirt roads. I would have never thought to explore here - so am getting a kick out of seeing what’s there. Another great video.
Thanks! I just happened to randomly run across it online looking for things in King County. Glad I found it!
Love those roads less traveled. I also like to tour old historic cemetaries
Growing up I lived next to a elderly lady that was born around 1895 or so. She said that when her family got to West Texas around 1905 they lived in a lean-to attached to their wagon. Her father and brother would take the wagon every other month or so and ride 2-3 days to get to the lumber yard...took almost 2 years to build a 200 sqft house!
Thank you for this. I, too, am always interested in places that have low populations, and the reasons why very few people live in those places. So this interesting history for me. You know, even if that cemetery is out in the middle of nowhere, each person buried in that cemetery represents someone special or important to someone
Agreed! Thank you!!
I live about 90 miles south of Guthrie. My dad was born in Kent County. When I was in high school driving through Guthrie Roy Rogers was filming a movie. Him and film crew were in ditch filming. Definitely wide open spaces! Plenty of red dirt roads! Enjoyed your video!
Thank you! Would be perfect for some western films!
Your production values are very good. I am glad to ride along on your adventures.
Much appreciated! Thank you!!
Goodness! You were really out in the middle of nowhere! What a trooper you are to stay the course and find the destinations you're looking for. I wonder, though, if we need to have you micro-chipped, so if you go missing, we can find you! Thank you for yet another very interesting journey!
Haha that might be a good idea 😂😂 Thanks!
Enjoyed this video. West Tx is an awesome place. Palo Duro Canyon is awesome. One of my all time favorites is Adobe Walls north of Stinnett. You could do a series on Adobe Walls by itself. Keep up the good work
Very cool! Thanks!!
Your sky camera makes all the difference in the world. Nice video. Be good, be safe !
Thank you! Yeah it makes me look way more professional than I am 😂
I have to laugh. I'll say this.... you have a true ability to know when to stop, know when to move on, you can get us lost but keep us watching. A fact... you are better at using the drone than I would ever be. Enough ftom me. Be good, be safe !@@TravelwithaWiseguy
I love these open spaces like this. I drove from Abilene up through Stamford, to Guthrie, then west to go to caprock canyons state park. Next time you are in Guthrie I recommend going west from there and seeing dickens spring. It's amazing how it's so flat near Guthrie then a little west you start to see canyons.
I'd love to watch a video of you exploring all the towns and areas that zig zag the llano estacado. Safe travels man!
Thanks! Actually I went to Dickens on this trip too. Videos to come!
Great to see you again. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! Will do my best!!
Great video! The cemetery at the end definitely isolated. No worries about grave robbers. Lol. Thanks for sharing.
Haha very true! 😂
First time I saw one of your videos, very nicely done, I enjoyed it and grew up in Texas, born there and lived there for 34 years, (San Angelo area) I went through a place called Stratford Texas on my way to Washington State when I moved here in 1992. It was a very desolate abandoned place with grain elevators being the high light of the town. lol
Thanks so much!
Awesome , I am originally from Tom Green County . San Angelo. In Idaho, now. I love to see Texas little towns. Nothing like Texas little towns. Grt job. I can travel to Texas. W/o leaving home. Thnx
Thank you! I have more small town Texas in the coming weeks 😊
King County and a good amount of your Highway 50 trip sure got you out to where you had elbow room as they use to say. At least fighting traffic was not a concern. Even then, it is still a wonderful look at the vast changes that we have in our country as one travels along. Loved all the drone shots, but that last one panning out down the road that you had come in on to show nothing but miles of country, was a nice shot to show where you were. And makes me glad for today's mechanized transportation that we have. You would of had quite a ride by horseback or carriage to get back to civilization. Plus I understand the a/c wasn't all that good in a buggy!
Thanks once more for taking us along!
Some very good observations! As I get older sitting in traffic is high on my lift of least favorite things 😂 I could’ve hung out all day in the open range - it was so desolate and beautiful in my mind!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy While driving for an LTL, I preferred to work country routes if I was on pickup and delivery work. Most of the guys wanted city work. So I was able to stay happy because no one would fight me for the country route. It was what I wanted to do, and was great most of the time. Exceptions being little things such as having only one way to get freight to a farmstead, and finding a three ton bridge on that only road to the destination. Front axle alone was over three ton! Luckily never had one of those old bridges ever go down. Mostly it is just the county's way of avoiding responsibility. But still made me sit lightly in the seat!
Yeah, country is best!
Good Morning, The 6666 is world famous ,several cowboy's spent most of their lives working there and they are famous too. I don't think that being connected to the new owner Is a good thing, the store there on the ranch was basically for the ranch people who were working out there. Now it's another tourist attraction. Thanks for Sharing.
Thanks for the comment! Will be interesting to see how it goes with the new ownership group!
Another great video as always John, but I found it kind of sad that four people were buried so far away from where people live. All the best from Australia.
I did too. Glad I was able to find it and give it some attention!
Really enjoyed the video as I do all of your videos ! Gilkerson Cemetery was real interesting and appreciate the drone view ! The drone views you give us really add to all the videos. I appreciate all the time and effort you put into all your videos and how nice and respectful you are to all the places you visit! I’m sure I will never get to a fraction of where you go but thankful you can take us there !
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year John 🎄🙂
Thank you very much! Very kind of you 😊 Hope you have a great holiday season!
Thank you very much !
Wow, that little cemetery is the most interesting thing to me. It's a real wild west location, and it looks like no one is expected to ever go there. Find a Grave has two infants and two adults listed as being buried there. Thank you!
Thanks for the info! Interesting!
Loved the video as always- I stopped there at the court house in February and took pictures with my buddy Sparky.
Nice! Beautiful old structure!
I always seek out your videos. I love small towns and ghost towns, and learning the history behind them. Incidentally, I loved the background music in this video! Very "old west".😊❤
Glad you like them! Much appreciated! More small town Texas to come!
You’re down in my family’s area of Texas now! That road (Plainview, Floydada, Paducah, Vernon) is a Lonely old drive! It’s 30 miles to Anywhere out there. 😂🤣😀😉👍
Lonely for sure! Loved it!
Impressive video with unique headstones at 1st cemetery. Drone shot were great.
Interesting video! I’ve been to King county a few times but you showed things that I would have had no idea was there 😎👍🏻
Thank you! It was fun!
My dad worked for the 6666's back in early 50's. Until I think about '56. He had come there in 49, I think because my grandfather got sick and dad took his job over. I was born in Paducah in '53. I dont remember a whole lot about Guthrie. My mom waited tables at the old Conoco cafe. I have been back a few times and always enjoy the trip. I am now in Bear Lake, Pennsylvania. Thanks for the video.
Nice! I bet it was a very interesting experience! I really enjoyed my visit!
My grandfather drilled the wells and set the windmills on the 6666 and the Pitchfork. Waggoner also. He lived on the Pitchfork at the time. I really enjoyed this video. Grandpa's neme was Floyd Smith.
I hope your green magic marker finds more interesting history on your travels. Love all your videos! 🏆
Me too! And I think it will 😉 Thanks!
. . interesting note about that Hwy 83, that cuts thru King County from north to south . . . that Hwy 83 runs completely from the US Southern border, all the way to the US Northern border !
Nice! I did US 89 from Canada to Mexico a couple years ago!
This sounds morbid but cemeteries are one of my favorite places. I think I described why previously though, not for goth morbid reasons but for the history they contain. I'm glad you started there
I really like small little towns I’ve lived in a few in my time in Kansas thank you for the ride really enjoyed the video. Stay safe
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!!
Thanks for taking us with you 😊😊
My pleasure 😊
A lot of old cotton gins over the rolling plains!🇺🇸👍
Used to do FHmA inspection in that part of Texas.🇺🇸🤠
Very cool!
You showed a field of irrigated cotton , their is an operating gin in that area , somewhere! John compare 6666 ranch grazing area to the flint hills. Here in kansas we figure 4 acres per cow calf pair , this is would be good flint hills grass.
The actual area of the Flint Hills is so huge, at least from what I’ve seen. Goes all the way down into Oklahoma I believe so it seems much, much larger than the ranch.
I did enjoy this as with all of them you create. Very sad, but Cool 😎 that you do it.
As always, Thumbs up 👍
Thank you! I love doing videos like this 😊
You might want to check out Clay County Texas. Several small towns in that county
Would love to - maybe later in 2024!
Fun to see this video = I am an armature astronomer and used to do business in Amarillo/ There used to be a roadside park where I would stop and take advantage of the dark sky's. (Some of the darkest sky in America - great for comet hunting). This particular night I had the telescope all set up and went back to the car to grab a Dr.Pepper and some oatmeal cookies. On my return I herd some noise, Surprised I turned around to see the biggest and equally surprised skunk I have ever seen in my life, But instead of getting sprayed he or she just looked at me. I guess it was the first time it had ever seen a human. I left my oatmeal raisin cookie as a peace offering. and got back in the car. I didn't want to press my luck, so, After about 20 minutes sitting in the car I got out and packed up my gear and got out of there. And I have never been back.
another cool production ❤❤
Thank you 🙌
Yes you are rite about the flint hills size. 4 acres per cow calf pair refers to grass quality not acreage.
Glad you went so I don’t need to 😂. Keep up the good work my friend, the drone footage adds so much 😎
Thanks, will do! 😊
I hope you do Lamb county. Not as low population but lots of history.
My house is next to a tower with 3,000 people and this county has 270, i think about these empty counties/townships all the time because i live in big city…. I have been to issaquena county ms, hyde county nc, tyrrell county nc and Niobrara County wy some rural areas, love your videos
I appreciate it! Crazy to think of that comparison!
Nice shot in Guthrie of the stadium where they play 6 man football
I was wondering 6 or 8 man!
LOL! I MANAGED TO GO THERE TWICE, ONCE BY 83 HIGHWAY, ONCE BY 82 HIGHWAY!
Nice! Beautiful wide open spaces!
Definitely a miles around part of the state. As in there is nothing for miles around. Shame someone torched that school. Looked like it wasn't that long before your visit. Interesting places John, glad you took us there
Thank you! It was actually a church and I found pretty recent photos of it online. I was disappointed to see that when I pulled up.
The church probably caught fire from a lightning strike.
Is there a Lawrence next to Dumont? would be great if there was a Lawrence-Dumont School District there HA!
😂😂
Kalawao County is a leper colony, so its 82 residents include approximately 63 noses and 585 fingers.
That’s correct! Obviously I would like to visit Kalawao someday, but I’ve heard it’s not open to the public.
my wife and I took the mule ride down to the leper colony in the early 80s. It’s the coolest trip I ever was on it’s one of the most scenic places on earth, mother, Marianne was still buried there Unfortunately They return her remains to the mother house in Syracuse New York. What a mistake ,the Residence had the business in the colony,ike was our guide, he had one of the he was a lovely person❤❤❤❤
Awesome! I’m definitely jealous!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I think you can still visit, maybe by airplane, molokai is not a welcoming place the locals do not like outsiders, no aloha there😞😞
I can't see crosses on the tombstones so I guess there are baptist graves. My question is: what is the difference among such tombstones and tombstones situated on cemeteries for dogs and cats?
Without a map. Going nowhere, hard to get out from the king county tx
Kenedy county next
you know, there must be a lot of famous Guthries throughout history because there are a ton of towns named after somebody named Guthrie. There is one here in Iowa, too
For sure. Pretty common name for a town. In fact there are 15 in the USA!
Our first state capitol in Oklahoma was called Guthrie
try gail and borden county
Thank you. Loving was disgusting, unpromising, and unfriendly. Maybe King has promise.
Agreed!
That is wide open spaces
Haha yes it is! Loved it!
I think i's Burn it...not Burnett
And Thank You for all the research you do
Thanks for the correction!
80 people but how many cows. Not a trite question. On land that take 3-4 acres to support one cow you don't need many people but a lot of land.. Downtown Dallas has a lot of people but not many cows.
Lots and lots of cows!
🤔, lots of land that could be brought back to life .
it's being used to raise cattle and horses...
@@louispaparella5766 that is great
@@louispaparella5766 that is good to know
The 4 6's Ranch and the Pitchfork Ranch, across the highway, both have award winning remudas. They prefer to herd their cattle on horseback, rather than 4 wheelers. They feel it's less stressful to the animals that way@@lindastepp9842
You are in the high lonesome out there.
Not every town with a name on the map
has a gas station.
so when are you going to visit that county in Hawaii? lol
I’ve looked at it! Who knows maybe next year 🤷🏼♂️
I can see it a as new series going from the least to the most populated counties in the USA@@TravelwithaWiseguy
Haha yes!
The least populated county in Texas is Loving County not King County!!
The title of the video says King County is the 3rd least populated. Early in this video I talk about Loving County being the least populated.
Who the hell cares?
lol 😂