Burkburnett, Texas Burkburnett, Texas City Location of Burkburnett, Texas Location of Burkburnett, Texas Incorporated City of Burkburnett 1923 Type Commissioner form of government, with a City Manager Black-and-white photograph of petroleum derricks in Burkburnett, Texas Burkburnett is a town/city in Wichita County, Texas, United States.

It is part of the Wichita Falls, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The improve newspaper, the Burkburnett Informer/Star, is presented each Thursday.

5 City Government 6 City departments According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Burkburnett has a total region of 9.5 square miles (24.6 km ), all of it land.

Climate data for Burkburnett, Texas In 1906, a close-by wealthy rancher titled Samuel Burk Burnett sold more than 16,000 acres (65 km ) of his territory in northern Wichita County to a group of investors who were seeking to extend into the wheat-growing region of Western Oklahoma the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, one of the Frank Kell/Joseph A.

The town was titled Burkburnett by U.S.

Fashion designer Nolan Miller was born in Burkburnett in 1933.

As of the census of 2000, 10,445 citizens , 4,139 homeholds, and 3,108 families resided in the city.

The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 90.67% White, 2.88% African American, 1.06% Native American, 0.64% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 2.66% from other competitions, and 2.00% from two or more competitions.

Of the 4,139 homeholds, 36.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 60.5% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 24.9% were not families.

In the city, the populace was distributed as 27.9% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.8% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $37,408, and for a family was $42,917.

The per capita income for the town/city was $17,507.

About 7.9% of families and 9.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 13.0% of those under age 18 and 8.9% of those age 65 or over.

The City of Burkburnett is served by the Burkburnett Independent School District.

City Government The town/city of Burkburnett is a home-rule municipality.

The governing body is composed of seven town/city commissioners who are propel by the voters at-large, clean water by district.

The commissioners serve staggered, two-year terms, with four propel amid even-numbered years and three propel amid odd-numbered years.

The commissioners are charged with electing the mayor from among the town/city commissioners, and appointing or reappointing the town/city manager.

The mayor is the traditional enhance figurehead of the city, while the town/city manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations inside the town/city government.

City departments City Hall According to the Koppen climate classification system, Burkburnett has a humid subtropical climate, Cfa on climate maps. BURKBURNETT, TX | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Welcome to the City of Burkburnett "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"Enumeration of Population and Housing".

Climate Summary for Burkburnett, Texas City of Burkburnett Burkburnett Volunteer Fire Department Municipalities and communities of Wichita County, Texas, United States

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