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2412199 [4] Website. www.weatherfordtx.gov. Weatherford (/ ˈwɛðərfərd /) [5] is a city and the county seat of Parker County, Texas, United States. In 2020, its population was 30,854. [6] Weatherford is named after Thomas J. Weatherford, a State senator and advocate for Texas's secession to the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
Weatherford Downtown Historic District. Weatherford Downtown Historic District. Show map of Texas Show map of the United States Show all. Location. Roughly bounded by Waco, Water, Walnut and Lee Sts., Weatherford, Texas. Coordinates. 32°45′33″N 97°47′46″W / 32.75917°N 97.79611°W / 32.75917; -97.79611. Area. 31 acres (13 ha)
UTC−5 (CDT) Congressional districts. 12th, 25th. Website. www.parkercountytx.com. Parker County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 148,222. [1] The county seat is Weatherford. [2] The county was created in 1855 and organized the following year. [3]
November 14, 2022 at 9:01 AM. Here are some of the earliest photographs of Weatherford, the Parker County seat, from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives, as well as scenes from the 1930s through ...
Museum Interior of the Vintage Grill & Car Museum. The museum features 11 cars. Its collection includes a 1930 Buick, a 1940 LaSalle, a 1948 Studebaker sheriff patrol car, a 1948 Lincoln and a 1964 Lincoln Continental owned by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a 1975 Trabant, a 1979 Jeep CJ-7 (featuring six-wheel drive), a 1988 Jeep Grand Wagoneer-Dodge Durango hybrid, and a 1997 Pontiac G8 concept ...
The Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex sits above Cretaceous -age strata ranging from ≈145-66 Ma (million years ago). These Cretaceous-aged sediments lie above the eroded Ouachita Mountains and the Fort Worth Basin, which was formed by the Ouachita Orogeny. Going from west to east in the DFW Metroplex and down towards the Gulf of Mexico, the ...
Lake Weatherford. Coordinates. 32°46′47.0″N 97°41′19.3″W / 32.779722°N 97.688694°W / 32.779722; -97.688694. References. [1] Lake Weatherford is a lake located in Weatherford, Texas. [2] The lake stands to the north-east of the city, north of Hudson Oaks and Willow Park.
Texas joined the newly created Confederate States of America on March 4, 1861, ratifying the permanent C.S. Constitution on March 23. [1] [104] Not all Texans favored secession initially, although many of the same would later support the Southern cause. Texas's most notable Unionist was the state governor, Sam Houston. Not wanting to aggravate ...