This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HlB.2ACI/1085.1 Message Board Post: Vanderpool, TX is on State Highway 187 ten miles north of Utopia and thirty miles west of Bandera in western Bandera County. The town was named for the first postmaster, L. B. Vanderpool, but the site had previously been called Bugscuffle.