The canyon is the landmark. The deposit is still either cattle or grain.
Armstrong County is Palo Duro country, and the books in Claude are a ranch and a crop. If a deposit landed and nobody wrote down which one it was, that is the problem this page is for. You do not haul the paper to Amarillo to get it named.
Armstrong County is on the central Panhandle, at the eastern edge of the High Plains, and the seat is Claude. It was established in 1876 from Bexar County. The name is one of several Texas pioneer families named Armstrong. The handbook says the sources are not clear about which family, so this page does not pick one.
The handbook says the great Palo Duro Canyon covers the rest of the southern half of the county, and that the eastern end of Palo Duro Canyon State Park is in Armstrong County. The Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River runs in the canyon. The Salt Fork of the Red River and Mulberry Creek are the other streams it names. The soils support native grasses, and in some areas wheat and grain sorghums.
The handbook describes the local economy as ranching and farming. It ties U.S. Highway 287 to the old Fort Worth and Denver City line as the main road into Claude. If your books are there, the canyon is the landmark. The file is still a ranch draw or a grain sale. Those are different pieces of paper.
Texas has no state income tax. Armstrong County still has the two dates every owner on this page shares with the rest of the state. April 15 is the business personal property rendition, filed with the county appraisal district. May 15 is the franchise report.
The July 2026 Comptroller figure shows a county sales tax of 0.5%. The state rate is 6.25%. A city rate stacks on top of those where a city has one. The combined cap is 8.25%. Nothing on this page invents a city rate for Claude. The city figure stays on the city line.
A deposit cleared in Claude, and your file never says whether it came from the herd or from the grain. Open the notebook you already keep. Find the sale you trust less than the others. If it was cattle, copy the head count or the brand you wrote that day. If it was wheat or sorghum, copy what the scale ticket said. One scrap is enough. If you pause and cannot tell, that pause is the line your books are missing.
The bank will show you the amount and the day. It will leave the enterprise unnamed, so you write your own word on the deposit before the month closes, while you still remember the check. If a rendition draft is also on the desk, use the same herd or the same crop you just named, so the draft and the deposit describe one operation. The notebook stays in Claude. There is no office on the rim for you to drive to. Set the half hour around the sale you could not name from memory.
Trades that are not a ranch or a crop are listed with the other industries.
Book the look if the deposit has no name.
Book a time to name the deposit
Sources:
Handbook of Texas: Armstrong County
County sales tax is the July 2026 Texas Comptroller figure supplied in the project county file. Seat, year, name, and the county it was formed from are the same file.