Sanco Cemetery is located south of Sanco, a ghost town, on an unpaved road approximately a mile.
Sanco survived longer than most small towns whose population never exceeded more than thirty families. Its settlement began in the 1880s and its last store closed in the early 1970s. The town consisted mostly of cotton farmers and a few cattle ranchers. During World War I, severe drought forced the closure of many small farms. Soon thereafter, those who were left found it impossible to compete with newer and larger farms on the South Plains and in the Panhandle. Gradually, all the former cotton fields returned to grassland and range use. Sanco had a general store, school, Methodist and Baptist churches, and an automobile garage among other businesses, the remains of which are there to see. The town is located just off state highway 208 about halfway between the towns of Silver and Robert Lee. It was named for the Comanche chief Sanaco, who regularly camped there before white settlement. J. L. Durham opened the first post office in his rock home in 1888, and a meetinghouse served as both school and church. A general store was also established. In 1907 the town was moved to flatter ground and closer to water. A Methodist church had already been built at the new site. A school was erected on land donated by Ulmer Bird, and the neighboring Horse Mountain and Meadow Mountain schools were merged with the Sanco school. Sanco had a cotton gin from 1905 until boll weevil devastation, drought, and low prices ended cotton farming in the area in the 1920s. The post office was closed in 1920 but reopened in 1924. The improvement of rural roads in the 1940s and 1950s dealt the final blow to the town's economy. The post office was discontinued by 1976. The population was thirty from 1970 through 1990.