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The airport covers 1,410 acres (570 ha) at an elevation of 749 feet (228 m). It has three runways: 17L/35R, which measures 9,000 by 150 feet (2,743 x 46 m) and is made from asphalt/concrete; 17R/35L, which measures 4,008 by 100 feet (1,222 x 30 m) and is also made from asphalt/concrete, and 13/31, which measures 2,277 by 60 feet (694 x 18 m) and is made from asphalt.
James "Jim" Wright is an American businessman and politician who has served as a member of the Railroad Commission of Texas, the elected regulatory body over oil, natural gas, utilities, and surface mining, since 2021. [1] A Republican, [2] Wright owns environmental services companies. [3]
Wright City is an unincorporated community in Smith amd Rusk counties in Texas, United States. [1] It is located at along Texas State Highway 64 , at its junction with the east end of Farm to Market Road 15 .
Texas State Highway 11 crosses the southern part of Whitewright with US 69, leading southeast 36 miles (58 km) to Commerce and northwest 17 miles (27 km) to Sherman. According to the United States Census Bureau, Whitewright has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.8 km 2), of which 0.004 square miles (0.01 km 2), or 0.21%, is water. [6]
Grayson County was created from Fannin County by the Texas State Legislature on March 17, 1846. [4] The county seat, Sherman, was also designated by the Texas State Legislature. In the 1850s, trading and marketing at Preston Bend became more important, as agriculture expanded in the county. This was helped by Preston Road, the first trail in ...
Founded in 1941 as a training site for World War II pilots, Perrin Army Air Field was deactivated in 1946, but reopened as Perrin Air Force Base in April 1948.
The J. Dale Wainwright Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison for men, located in unincorporated Houston County, Texas. [1] [2] Formerly called the Eastham Unit or "The Ham," the prison was renamed the J. Dale Wainwright Unit after a former chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. [3]
Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. [5] The city's population in 2020 was 43,645. [6] It is one of the two principal cities in the Sherman–Denison metropolitan statistical area, and is the largest city in the Texoma region of North Texas and southern Oklahoma.