Kent is a ghost town in Culberson County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 60 in 2000.
The X Ranch in Kent was associated with a controversy within the racehorse industry. Sugar Bars, an American Quarter Horse, had a sire named Three Bars. Frontera Sugar, his dam, had some controversy attached to her breeding. Her breeder later registered Frontera Sugar's dam as Palomino DO, but the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) has never gotten this correction into their records. Palomino DO was registered in 1947 with the number 8353. Her breeding was given as by a son of Ben Hur, and out of a Reynolds Brothers mare. This is not the Reynolds that bred Frontera Sugar, but rather the Reynolds Brothers that owned the X Ranch.
In 1959, the Ross R-6 flew solo from Kent to Farley, New Mexico, for Harland Ross' diamond distance and won the Barringer Trophy. This flight completed his Diamond badge, which was No. 14 in the US.
Geography
Kent is located at the crossroads of Interstate 10, Interstate 20, Texas State Highway 118, and Farm to Market Road 2424 on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, east of Van Horn, east of El Paso, and west of Fort Stockton in southeastern Culberson County.
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification, Kent has a semiarid climate, abbreviated BSk on climate maps.
Education
Kent's school closed in 1961.