Dougherty (formerly Doughtery) is a small
unincorporated community
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 th ...
in
Floyd County,
Texas
Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...
, United States.
History
Dougherty was established in 1928 and named for Francis M. Dougherty.
[ A school was built in 1929.][
]
Geography
Dougherty is located on the high plains of the Llano Estacado
The Llano Estacado (), sometimes translated into English as the Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. One of the largest mesas or tablelands on the North A ...
in West Texas
West Texas is a loosely defined region in the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the desert climate, arid and semiarid climate, semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Texas, Wichita Falls, Abilene, Texa ...
. It lies at an elevation of .[
]
Education
It is within the Floydada Independent School District. The Dougherty Independent School District consolidated into the former on July 1, 1987.
See also
* Becton, Texas
* Estacado, Texas
* Heckville, Texas
*Blanco Canyon
Blanco Canyon is a canyon located in the U.S. state of Texas. Eroded by the White River (Texas), White River into the Caprock Escarpment on the east side of the Llano Estacado, the canyon runs for in a southeasterly direction, gradually widening ...
*Mount Blanco
Mount Blanco is a small white hill — an erosional remnant — located on the eastern border of the Llano Estacado within Blanco Canyon in Crosby County, Texas. With Blanco Canyon, it is the type locality of the early Pleistocene Blanco Formation ...
*White River (Texas)
The White River is an intermittent stream in the South Plains of Texas and a tributary of the Brazos River of the United States. It rises west of Floydada in southwestern Floyd County at the confluence of Callahan Draw and Running Water Dra ...
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Public domain photos of West Texas and the Llano Estacado
Unincorporated communities in Floyd County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
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