|
Posey, Texas
Posey is an unincorporated community located in Lubbock County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 125 in 2000. It is located within the Lubbock metropolitan area. History Walter Samson Posey's family donated land for a right of way for the ATKC Railroad. Subsequently, the community was named for them. It had 25 residents and three businesses in 1936, the year the community was officially established. In 1941, Posey grew to have 70 residents, a church, a grain elevator, and two businesses. Only a church and some scattered houses remained in 1975. However, the population was reported as 120 from 1952 to 1973, then to 125 from 1974 to 2000. The population further increased to 225 in 2010. Geography Posey is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on U.S. Route 84, southeast of Lubbock and northwest of Slaton in southeastern Lubbock County. Education Posey had its own school in 1941. It joined the Slaton Independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Area
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as the military). There are many unincorporated communities and areas in the United States and Canada, but many countries do not use the concept of an unincorporated area. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut Province, Chubut, Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Formosa Province, Formosa, Neuquén Province, Neuquén, Río Negro Province, Río Negro, San Luis Province, San Luis, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán Province, Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only local go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 272,086 in 2024, Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northwestern part of the state, in the Great Plains region, an area known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains, lying at the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 367,109 in 2024. Lubbock's nickname, "Hub City", derives from it being the economic, educational, and healthcare hub of the multicounty region, located north of the Permian Basin and south of the Texas Panhandle, commonly called the South Plains. The area is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world and is heavily dependent on water from the Ogallala Aquifer for irrigation. Lubbock is home to Texas Tech University, the sixth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Communities In Lubbock County, Texas
Unincorporated may refer to: * Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality * Unincorporated entity, a type of organization * Unincorporated territories of the United States, territories under U.S. jurisdiction, to which Congress has determined that only select parts of the U.S. Constitution apply * Unincorporated association Unincorporated association refers to a group of people in common law jurisdictions—such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand—who organize around a shared purpose without forming a corporation or similar legal entity. Unlike in some ..., also known as voluntary association, groups organized to accomplish a purpose * ''Unincorporated'' (album), a 2001 album by Earl Harvin Trio {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Historic districts in the United States, districts, and objects deemed worthy of Historic preservation, preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". The enactment of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing property, contributing resources within historic district (United States), historic districts. For the most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the United States Department of the Interior. Its goals are to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically Setting (narrative), set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with Americana (culture), folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. The frontier is depicted in Western media as a sparsely populated hostile region patrolled by cowboys, Outlaw (stock character), outlaws, sheriffs, and numerous other Stock character, stock Gunfighter, gunslinger characters. Western narratives often concern the gradual attempts to tame the crime-ridden American West using wider themes of justice, freedom, rugged individualism, manifest destiny, and the national history and identity of the United States. Native Americans in the United States, Native American populations were often portrayed as averse foes or Savage ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Dean (singer)
Eddie Dean (born Edgar Dean Glosup; – ) was an American Western singer and actor. His smooth baritone impressed both Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, who considered Dean the best cowboy singer of all time. Eddie Dean's show-business career began in 1937, as a radio singer. Within the year Republic Pictures, a producer of low-budget western and action feature films, hired him to play incidental roles. He also joined the Hopalong Cassidy production team in 1938, and appeared in many Paramount westerns. Beginning in 1941, producers took notice of Dean's singing voice and gave him specialty numbers. In 1944 producer Walt Mattox hired Eddie Dean to support cowboy star Ken Maynard in the low-budget feature '' Harmony Trail''. This led to producer Robert Emmett Tansey approaching Dean to star in a radically new series of westerns, to be released by PRC. These would be the first budget westerns to be filmed in then-unusual Cinecolor. The Eddie Dean series was immediately successful, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slaton Independent School District
Slaton Independent School District is a public school district based in Slaton, Texas, United States. In addition to Slaton, the district serves students in rural southeastern Lubbock County and parts of Ransom Canyon. A small portion of extreme northeastern Lynn County lies within the district. In 2009, the school district was rated " academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency. Schools * Slaton High School (grades 9–12), 2008 National Blue Ribbon School * Slaton Junior High School (grades 6–8) * Cathelene Thomas Elementary School (grades 1–5) * Austin Elementary School (pre-K–kindergarten) Notable students * William John Cox William John "Billy Jack" Cox (born February 15, 1941) is an American public interest lawyer and author. Biography Early career Employed in 1962 by the El Cajon Police Department, he attended the nearby San Diego Police Department Academy. I ..., public interest attorney, author, and political activist; attended Slaton High Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slaton, Texas
Slaton is a city in Lubbock County, Texas, Lubbock County, Texas, United States. Founded by German immigrants, Slaton was the westernmost German settlement in Texas The population was 5,858 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Slaton is part of the Lubbock metropolitan area, Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Slaton was named for Lubbock rancher and banker O.L. Slaton, O.L. Slaton, Sr. (1867–1946), who promoted railroad construction in Slaton. Geography Slaton is on the level plains of the Llano Estacado. The nearest significant geographical feature is Yellow House Canyon, which is to the northeast. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of , of which are land and , or 0.56%, is covered by water. Climate According to the Köppen climate classification system, Slaton has a semiarid climate, ''BSk'' on climate maps. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 5,858 people, 2,090 household ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States between 1859 and 1996. The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight transport; at various times, it operated an airline, the short-lived Santa Fe Skyway, and the Santa Fe Railroad tugboats. Its bus line extended passenger transportation to areas not accessible by rail, and ferryboats on the San Francisco Bay allowed travelers to complete their westward journeys to the Pacific Ocean. The AT&SF was the subject of a popular song, Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer's " On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", written for the film '' The Harvey Girls'' (1946). The railroad officially ceased independent operations on December 31, 1996, when it merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway. History Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway The railroad was chartered in February 1859 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubbock County, Texas
Lubbock County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census placed the population at 310,639. Its county seat and largest city is Lubbock, Texas, Lubbock. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1891. It is named for Thomas Saltus Lubbock, a Confederate States of America, Confederate colonel and Texas Ranger Division, Texas Ranger (some sources give his first name as Thompson). Lubbock County, along with Crosby County, Texas, Crosby County, and Lynn County, Texas, Lynn County, is part of the Lubbock metropolitan area, Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The Lubbock MSA and Hockley County, Texas, Levelland Micropolitan Statistical Area, encompassing only Hockley County, Texas, Hockley County, form the larger Lubbock–Levelland combined statistical area, Lubbock–Levelland Combined Statistical Area. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubbock Metropolitan Area
The Lubbock metropolitan area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the South Plains region of West Texas, United States, that covers three counties – Crosby, Lubbock, and Lynn. As of the 2010 census, the Lubbock MSA had a population of 290,805, though a 2019 estimate placed the population at 322,257, which ranks it the 157th-most populated MSA in the United States. It is also part of the larger Lubbock–Plainview combined statistical area. Communities Places with more than 150,000 people * Lubbock (Principal city) Places with 15,000 to 25,000 people * Plainview Places with 5,000 to 15,000 people * Levelland * Slaton * Wolfforth Places with 1,000 to 5,000 people * Abernathy * Anton * Crosbyton * Hale Center * Idalou * Lorenzo * Petersburg * Ralls * Ransom Canyon * Shallowater * Sundown * Tahoka Places with less than 1,000 people * Buffalo Springs *New Deal * New Home *O'Donnell * Opdyke West * Reese Center * Ropesville * Smyer * Wilson Unincorporated place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handbook Of Texas
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is an American nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, United States, on March 2, 1897. In November 2008, the TSHA moved its offices from Austin to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. In 2015, the offices were relocated again to the University of Texas at Austin. History On February 13, 1897, ten persons convened to discuss the creation of a nonprofit to promote Texas state history. George Pierce Garrison, chair of the University of Texas history department, led the organizational meeting establishing the association on March 2, 1893. The TSHA elected Oran Milo Roberts as its first president. In addition to Roberts, TSHA charter members included Guy M. Bryan, Anna Pennybacker, Bride Neill Taylor, and Dudley G. Wooten. About twenty or thirty persons attended the charter meeting. One of the founders was John Henninger Reagan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
