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Map of Wichita Falls in 1890 Kemp-Kell Building, circa 1910, now known as the Holt Hotel, was one of the first five-story office buildings in the city. From the early 18th century to the mid 19th century, the Wichita Falls area was inhabited by the Wichita and the Comanche people. The Spanish called the lands controlled by the Comanche as ...
Wichita County (/ ˈ w ɪ tʃ ɪ t ɔː / WITCH-ih-taw) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 129,350. [1] The county seat is Wichita Falls. [2] The county was created in 1858 and organized in 1882. [3] Wichita County is part of the Wichita Falls, Texas, TX metropolitan statistical area.
The Wichita Falls metropolitan statistical area is a metropolitan area in North Texas that covers three counties – Archer, Clay, and Wichita. As of the 2010 census , the MSA had a population of 151,306 (though a July 1, 2011 estimate placed the population at 150,261).
Sheppard Air Force Base (IATA: SPS, ICAO: KSPS, FAA LID: SPS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located five miles (8.0 km) north of the central business district of Wichita Falls, in Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the largest training base and most diversified in Air Education and Training Command.
U.S. Route 287 in North Texas U.S. Route 287 near Midlothian. U.S. Highway 287 (US 287) in the U.S. state of Texas is a major U.S. Highway that begins on the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur and heads north through Fort Worth, northwest to Childress, Clarendon, Wichita Falls, and Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma near Kerrick.
The two routes split in the city, with US 281 continuing toward Marble Falls, Burnet, and Lampasas. North of Stephenville, US 281 crosses I-20 and continues through North Central Texas, passing through Mineral Wells and Jacksboro. Upon reaching Wichita Falls, US 281 becomes a freeway.
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From Newcastle to the Red River north of Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S. 277 (and concurrent sections of U.S. 62, U.S. 81 and U.S. 281) serves as an alternate free route to the two sections of the H.E. Bailey Turnpike between Oklahoma City and the Red River from Newcastle southwest of Oklahoma to near Medicine Park north of Lawton and from near ...