Brownwood, Texas Brownwood, Texas Location inside the state of Texas Location inside the state of Texas State Texas Brownwood is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Brown County, Texas, United States. The populace was 19,288 at the 2010 census. The initial site of the Brown County seat of Brownwood was east of Pecan Bayou.
During the Second World War, Brownwood was the locale of U.S.
Brownwood's census figures were re-evaluated after the 2000 census from 18,813 to reflect more accurate figures of 20,407.
The two metros/cities are separated by the Pecan Bayou, one of five primary tributaries of the Colorado River of Texas.
Brownwood is positioned south of the center of Brown County, west of the Pecan Bayou.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Brownwood has a total region of 14.9 square miles (38.5 km2), of which 14.8 square miles (38.4 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.17%, is water. Lake Brownwood is positioned 7 miles (11 km) north of the city.
It is home of Lake Brownwood State Park, a 538-acre (2.18 km2) region which opened in 1938.
Due to the damming of the region to form Lake Brownwood, the Pecan Bayou has a shallow depth and little flow downstream from Brownwood.
It runs northwest to southeast and serves as a boundary between the metros/cities of Brownwood and Early.
The Texas Youth Commission operates the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex in Brownwood. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates the Brownwood District Parole Office in the city. The United States Postal Service operates the Brownwood Post Office. The town/city lies inside the Brownwood Independent School District.
Brownwood High School has a strong tradition of nonsports UIL participation, including academic competitions and drama (one-act plays).
The school was tied for most state championships in high school football, with seven, the last coming in 1981, until Celina won their eighth state championship in 2007.
Gordon Wood, who coached at Brownwood High for a quarter-century, retired in 1985 as one of the greatest coaches in Texas history, with 396 wins.
Many athletes from encircling communities move to Brownwood to play for the maroon and white.
Brownwood is home to Howard Payne University.
Brownwood is also the home of a West Texas ground of the Texas State Technical College System.
Brownwood is served by the following highways: US 67, US 84, US 183, US 377, and Texas State Highway 279.
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, Fort Worth and Western Railroad and Texas Rock Crusher Railway also serve the Brownwood area.
Brownwood is served by Brownwood Regional Airport.
Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, was reared in Brownwood and attended Brownwood High School Jerry Don Gleaton, Major League Baseball pitcher from 1979 to 1992 for the Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Detroit Tigers, and Pittsburgh Pirates Graham Harrell, award-winning Texas Tech Red Raiders quarterback (2007 2008); born in Brownwood, interval up in Ennis near Dallas Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, attended Howard Payne and is buried in Greenleaf Memorial Cemetery in Brownwood representative from Texas, born in Brownwood in 1918 Shelby Miller, pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, formerly of the Atlanta Braves; led the 2009 Brownwood High School baseball team to the county-wide finals Jim Morris, pitcher and coach, started a brief experienced baseball longterm position at the age of 35; the 2002 film The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid, is based on Morris' life; born in Brownwood John Paul Stapp, United States Air Force colonel, pioneer in studying effects of acceleration and deceleration forces on humans; preliminary education at Brownwood High School and San Marcos Academy in San Marcos Jack Taylor, mayor of Mesa, Arizona, from 1966 to 1972; after that a member, consecutively, of both homes of the Arizona State Legislature; resided in Brownwood before to his relocation to Mesa. Jim Thomason, football halfback and member of 1939 nationwide championship team of Texas A&M University, chose fifth overall by Detroit Lions in 1941 NFL draft Phil Wilson, appointed by Governor Rick Perry as 106th Texas secretary of state in 2007; interval up in Brownwood Gordon Wood set a state and nationwide record with a total of 396 wins, 91 losses, and 15 ties in 43 seasons as a head Texas high school football coach, an 80% winning record; won seven state championships at Brownwood; inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Brownwood has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Brownwood city, Texas".
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