Brownfield, Texas Brownfield, Texas Location of Brownfield, Texas Location of Brownfield, Texas Terry County Brownfield.svg State Texas County Terry Brownfield is a town/city in Terry County, Texas, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Terry County 39 miles southwest of Lubbock.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Brownfield has a total region of 6.3 square miles (16 km2), of which 0.32% is veiled by water.
Brownfield lies in the center of Terry County, inside the southern portion of the South Plains and Llano Estacado.
The only terrain variation lies at the south end of the city, where Lost Draw carves a channel that runs athwart the entire county.
Lost Draw formed over 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age when the climate of the region was much wetter.
The most notable geographic feature of Brownfield remains its red soil.
Brownfield lies in a semiarid temperate zone, where high winds and extreme temperature variations are the norm.
Climate data for Brownfield, Texas (1981 2010) Cotton farming remains the backbone of not only Brownfield, but the entire South Plains in general.
Cotton fields stretch for miles, and the harvest season in October has a frenzy of activeness as harvesters (locally called cotton strippers), module manufacturers, and module trucks are seen all over the county.
A momentous haze also develops over the town/city as the small-town cotton gins go to work stripping the cotton from the burr, separating the seeds, and then compressing the cotton into 500-lb bales.
In recent years, grape burgeoning has shown Terry County as a prime producer of choice wine grapes.
While no wineries are presently in the county, a several notable ones are in the Lubbock area, about 30 miles northeast.
Oil manufacturing continues to form a small, but significant, part of the Brownfield economy.
Brownfield and Terry County have one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the State of Texas.
Brownfield has an extremely high sexually transmitted infection rate of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and most prominently syphilis, which is over 9 times the state average.
Only 61.5% of the populace holds a high school degree or higher, 8.9% a bachelor's degree or higher, and 2.7% a master's degree or higher.
In the city, the populace was distributed as 27.2% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 21.8% of families and 26.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 38.7% of those under age 18 and 13.5% of those age 65 or over.
Brownfield is served by a weekly newspaper, close-by stations KBXJ (FM) and KPET (AM), and the various Lubbock radio and TV stations.
KKUB (AM) and KTTU-FM are licensed to Brownfield, but operate primarily from offices and studios in Lubbock.
The Brownfield postal service contains a mural, Ranchers of the Panhandle Fighting Prairie Fire with Skinned Steer, painted in 1940 by Frank Mechau.
Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department. The building now serves as the Brownfield Police Station. A historical marker has been placed in front of the Brownville postal service with text reading: Mechau, a resident of Colorado, was chose by the WPA to paint a mural for the Brownfield Post Office which he instead of in October 1940.
The City of Brownfield is served by the Brownfield Independent School District, ranked 899 out of 932 districts in Texas with a zero star rating.
Brownfield High School was rated "Academically Unacceptable" by the Texas State Board of Education in 2011.
Several town meetings were held in 2008 to discuss the copy of selling beer and wine inside Terry County. On November 4, a majority registered voters voted to legalize the sale of beer and wine in Terry County (1533 for, 1211 against). Maple (1932 2006) - journalist at the Brownfield News in the middle 1950s Nunn - Texas nation music singer and "Ambassador of Texas Music" Jim Rudd - former member of the Texas House of Representatives Sheryl Swoopes - Women's National Basketball Association star, Brownfield High School Class of 1989 "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Texas City Data, retrieved 7 November 2010.
"Brownsville, Texas WPA Mural".
"2011 District Accountability Summary- Brownfield ISD".
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal On-line, retrieved 18 April 2008.
Brownfield News, retrieved October, 2008.
Brownfield News, retrieved 4 November 2008.
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