Hutchinson County was created by the Texas legislature in 1876 and named for attorney and judge Anderson Hutchinson, but it remained sparsely populated and was not organized until 1901. John F. and Maggie (Deahl) Weatherly settled near this site in 1898, built a dugout on their homestead, and later built a two-story house near the future site of Frank Phillips College in Borger, naming their settlement Granada. A post office opened on June 30, 1900, with Lutie S. Ford as the first postmaster, and John Weatherly opened the community’s first store in the basement of the ranch house. While Maggie Weatherly was serving as postmaster, the town name changed after the Weatherlys submitted Agnes and Opal, for their two daughters, and Isom, for their former home in Maury County, Tennessee; the postal name became Isom on July 7, 1906. A school opened on the Weatherlys’ land in 1907, Maggie operated a café, and the family also helped secure a telephone exchange. After the post office closed in 1919, the Weatherlys moved to the town of Panhandle but kept their land. When oil was discovered in the area in early 1926, Ace Borger and John S. Miller bought 240 acres from John Weatherly, formed a corporation, and platted a new townsite named Borger. Isom was also officially platted, bounded by Washington and Maple (later Mcgee) streets and the Panhandle & Santa Fe railroad, and the rival adjoining towns competed for oil industry warehouses and related businesses through 1926. Borger became the larger and more successful city, but the Weatherlys sold lots in Isom and used the proceeds to donate land for parks, churches, and other civic projects. By 1928, the Isom community had been absorbed into the corporate limits of Borger.