Bead-Loco Silver Gold Black Glass Collar TB

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 124 days, in Europe it is 71 days. As of 24-Sep-22 this one has survived for 7.3 years but it had been moved by only 19 cachers, for an average drop every 140 days. Please keep it moving, then drop it in a safe place!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

This is one of a series of large beads obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs.  They are named for Texas towns with interesting names or histories.

Loco is in north central Childress County.  It was named for the locoweed that grew in the area.  Early settlers arrived in the 1880s and included the families of Walter Campbell, Bobby Payne, and Dick Brown. The community's post office was established in November 1892 and located six miles south of the present site.  This post office was moved to several farmsteads before it was discontinued in 1908, and mail was sent to the nearby community of Arlie.  

In 1901 Loco grew slightly, when the Buck Creek school district was organized in Childress County.  By 1925 Loco had three stores, two churches, a blacksmith shop, and a cotton gin.   In 1930 the Arlie post office, established in 1888, was renamed and moved to Loco, where it remained in operation until 1964.  In 1946 the community had a dozen families as permanent residents, but improved transportation has since caused the businesses to close.  Only farms and the Loco and Arlie community cemeteries remain.