San Jon
At the junction of I-40 and Hwy 469 is the town of San Jon. The first building in what was to become San Jon was built in 1902, and railroad construction in 1904 caused the little settlement to boom. The first postmaster, W.D. Bennett, named it San Jon in 1906, puzzling many people then and ever since, because the name makes no sense in either English or Spanish. The best explanation anyone came up with is that it's a corruption of the Spanish "zanjon" or "deep gully." The San Jon Creek heads south of San Jon and flows east into Texas.
