Texasgulf Newgulf Sulphur Plant Site, Texas

This was one of the largest sulphur production sites in the world, and was operated by the Texasgulf company, which still has facilities on site, no longer in use, including part of the industrial plant, and two large brick smokestacks. Hundreds of employees lived in the adjacent company town of Newgulf, which only has a few houses that are still occupied now. 8,000 sulphur wells and 12,000 gas wells have been drilled here, into the margins of a subterranean geologic structure known as the Boling Salt Dome. Part of the dome has subsided into a lake, and a number of sinkholes have formed, one swallowing a road in 1983.