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Potter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 118,525. [1] Its county seat is Amarillo. [2] The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1887. [3]
Amarillo Creek is a creek in Amarillo, Texas, in Potter County. [1] The creek comprises Eastern and Western branches, with the mouth being on the Canadian River. The yellow banks of the river, and the nearby Amarillo Lake inspired the name of the city after the Spanish word "yellow”. [2] [3]
As of the census [4] of 2000, there were 406 people, 149 households, and 141 families residing in the village. The population density was 220.9 inhabitants per square mile (85.3/km 2).
The Amarillo metropolitan statistical area is a metropolitan area in the Texas Panhandle that covers five counties: Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall, and Oldham. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 268,691.
Amarillo (/ ˌ æ m ə ˈ r ɪ l oʊ / [6] AM-ə-RIL-oh; Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Potter County.It is the 16th-most populous city in Texas and the most populous city in the Texas panhandle. [7]
The prison opened in March 1990. [2] It was named after Governor of Texas William P. Clements.. In June 2013, according to a report surveying 92,449 adult inmates in 606 prisons, jails, and special confinement facilities from February 2011 to May 2012 by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, of the prisons holding men the Clements Unit had the eighth-highest rate of inmates who reported that ...
The Santa Fe Building is one of the oldest buildings in downtown Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A. It was completed on January 18, 1930 and had the regional offices of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway company. The Amarillo office of the railroad company supervised more than 5,800 miles (9,334 km) of railroads.
Built in 1937 and 1938, the building occupies a prominent position in downtown Amarillo, across East Fifth Avenue north of Courthouse Square. [4] Smaller and less important architecturally than the adjacent Potter County Courthouse, the Jones Building nevertheless gives the Federal Government a tangible presence in the center this city on the plains of North Texas, and demonstrates the concern ...