The community was named for
English settler William Gould-Busk, who bought the Starkweather ranch about 1886. It soon grew when the land around the area was sold for more farms in 1903. It then became a shipping port for
cotton and had a post office. Alongside the post office, the community also had a
cotton gin, six businesses, and 150 inhabitants in 1940, which then plunged to 70 in 1980, after
World War II. The population remained at that level in 2000. Although it is unincorporated, Gouldbusk has a post office with the ZIP code 76845. ==Geography==