Dalhart, Texas Dalhart, Texas Dalhart Consumers grain elevator, 2008 Dalhart Consumers grain elevator, 2008 Dalhart is a town/city in Dallam and Hartley counties in the U.S.
State of Texas, and the governmental center of county of Dallam County. The populace was 7,930 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1901, Dalhart is titled for its locale on the border of Dallam and Hartley counties; its name is a portmanteau of the names of the two counties. The town/city was established at the site of a barns junction, which heavily contributed to its early growth.
Dalhart was in the center of the Dust Bowl, an region adversely affected by a long reconstructionof drought and dust storms amid the Great Depression of the 1930s.
At the Dallam County Courthouse, Dalhart honors the memory of James R.
40 year sequence of Landsat images showing the dry Texas panhandle near the town of Dalhart Dalhart is positioned in northwestern Texas at 36 3 39 N 102 31 7 W (36.060856, 102.518656). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.8 square miles (12.4 km2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2), or 0.21%, is water. Dalhart sits at the intersection of U.S.
Two miles south of Dalhart is Rita Blanca Canyon, site of Rita Blanca Lake State Park.
Dalhart is positioned closer to six other state capitals than to Texas' capital of Austin.
In surface mileage (over primary highways), Dalhart is 570 miles (920 km) from Austin, but is 261 miles (420 km) from Santa Fe, New Mexico, 313 miles (504 km) from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 348 miles (560 km) from Denver, Colorado, 448 miles (721 km) from Cheyenne, Wyoming, 461 miles (742 km) from Topeka, Kansas, and 544 miles (875 km) from Lincoln, Nebraska. As the "crow flies," Dalhart is 491 miles (790 km) from Austin, but 201 miles (323 km) from Santa Fe, 281 miles (452 km) from Oklahoma City, 289 miles (465 km) from Denver, 375 miles (604 km) from Cheyenne, 434 miles (698 km) from Topeka, and 458 miles (737 km) from Lincoln. Dalhart experiences a semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk) with cool, dry winters and hot summers.
Depending on the standard consulted, Dalhart's climate is classified as semi-arid or steppe.
The average annual rainfall of less than 16 inches firmly influences both Dalhart's ecological climate and agricultural practices, especially center-pivot irrigation. Climate data for Dalhart, Texas.
In December 2015, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer voted Dalhart No.
As of the 2010 Census, Dalhart had a populace of 7,930 living in 2,957 housing locations.
With an region of 4.78 square miles, the City of Dalhart has a populace density of 1659.0 persons/square mile. In 2010, 9.9% of the populace identified as being foreign-born, with 25.4% of homeholds in Dalhart speaking a major language other than English at home.
71.1% of Dalhart inhabitants owned a home, with the median home value being $91,800.
Dalhart's economy is centered around agribusiness, including farming, ranching, feedlot operations, large scale pig farms, and, more recently a cheese refining plant.
Dalhart is also home to a state prison.
In the mid-2000s, a combination of tax incentives, Texas' mostly unrestricted surroundingal regulations and Dalhart's existing agricultural transit framework thriving industrialized dairy farms to the city's economic sphere. In 2007, Hilmar Cheese Company of California capitalized on the resulting milk availability, opening a primary manufacturing plant in Dalhart.
Texas Governor Rick Perry visited Dalhart to speak at the company's official welcoming ceremony, reiterating the company's projection that 2000 new jobs would be created in the region by the emerging dairy product manufacturing industry. This factory and the encircling dairies are a momentous emerging subsector of Dalhart's established agribusiness culture. Dalhart is known as the "XIT City" because of its relationship with the historic XIT Ranch. The ranch was a 3,000,000-acre (12,000 km2) plot of territory interchanged in exchange for the assembly of the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
The Empty Saddle Monument, positioned at the crossroads of Dalhart, was constructed in 1940 at the request of Bobby Dycke, the wife of a ranch hand, to recognize the donation of the XIT cowboys to the history of the region. The affairs are sponsored by the Dalhart Cruzers Car Club, and each year the club raffles a classic car. The Dalhart Independent School District serves the town/city of Dalhart.
Students attend Dalhart High School, which competes athletically and scholastically in District 1 Division 3 - A of Texas' University Interscholastic League. In 2012, Frank Phillips College opened a branch in Dalhart, offering both credit and improve education classes. The Dalhart Texan was established in 1901, and is presented in Dalhart.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Dalhart Unit prison is positioned in unincorporated Hartley County, near Dalhart. Welcome sign at Dalhart, Texas Streets paved with brick in downtown Dalhart Founded on December 11, 1902, the Dalhart Texan journal is presented Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Denrock Street in Dalhart.
Dalhart and Dallam-Hartley counties honor military veterans in a town/city park.
Closeup of Veterans Memorial in Dalhart (1919 43), of Dalhart for his unique World War II service.
The XIT Museum operates athwart the street from the Dallam County Courthouse in Dalhart.
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