Fort Stockton, Texas Fort Stockton, Texas The Pecos County Courthouse in Fort Stockton The Pecos County Courthouse in Fort Stockton Nickname(s): "Stockton; Stakitas; FS; The Heart of Pecos County" Location of Fort Stockton, Texas Location of Fort Stockton, Texas Fort Stockton Parade Ground and Officers' Quarters looking from the barracks Fort Stockton is a town/city in Pecos County, Texas, United States.

It is the governmental center of county of Pecos County, positioned on Interstate Highway 10, Future Interstate 14, U.S.

Fort Stockton is positioned at 30 53 29 N 102 53 6 W (30.891383, -102.885032). H "to take post" along Comanche Springs on 12 April 1859. Fort Stockton (named Camp Stockton until 1860) interval up around Comanche Springs, one of the biggest sources of spring water in Texas, and was titled for Robert Field Stockton.:Preface Comanche Springs was a favorite rest stop on the Great Comanche Trail to Chihuahua, San Antonio-El Paso Road, the Butterfield Overland Mail Route.:Preface In 1861, the fort was garrisoned by 39 men of Company C, 8th Infantry, under the command of Capt.

Arthur Tracy Lee, who evacuated the fort by April.:9 The Confederates took possession of the fort on 9 May by Charles L.

Other forts in the frontier fort fitness were Forts Griffin, Concho, Belknap, Chadbourne, Richardson, Davis, Bliss, Mc - Kavett, Clark, Mc - Intosh, Inge, and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma. "Sub posts or intermediate stations" also were used, including Bothwick's Station on Salt Creek between Fort Richardson and Fort Belknap, Camp Wichita near Buffalo Springs between Fort Richardson and Red River Station, and Mountain Pass between Fort Concho and Fort Griffin. On 21 July 1867, Fort Stockton was reoccupied by Companies A, B, E, and K of the 9th U.S.

Cavalry Regiment, buffalo soldiers under the command of General Edward Hatch, while a new fort was assembled one-half mile north of the first post, on the west side of the creek.:83 Major James F.

The old First National Bank building in Fort Stockton, which is now the Fort Stockton Police Station In 1868, Peter Gallagher bought the territory that encompassed the military garrison and Comanche Springs, platted 160 acres (0.65 km2) for a townsite titled Saint Gaul, and established two stores at Comanche Springs.

A lawsuit was filed by the Pecos County Water District #1, and 108 families who depended on the flow from the Springs, to stop the pumping (Pecos County Water District #1 vs Clayton Williams et al.).

In his book, The Springs of Texas, author Gunnar Brune called the destruction of Comanche Springs, "the most spectacular example of man's abuse of nature." After the military post was abandoned on June 30, 1886, and both the Texas and Pacific and the Southern Pacific barns s had bypassed it, Fort Stockton experienced a decline.

By then, however, it was quickly becoming the center for an extensive sheep- and cattle-ranching industry, and in 1926, the opening of the close-by Yates Oil Field brought on an economic boom. Fort Stockton was served by the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway.

Since the 1920s, Fort Stockton has experienced the economic boom-bust cycle of the oil industry.

As of 2012, Fort Stockton is in a state of economic expansion as oilfield drilling and manufacturing has increased. Fort Stockton is 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Midland International Airport.

The City of Fort Stockton is served by the Fort Stockton Independent School District.

Fort Stockton has two elementary schools, Alamo Elementary and Apache Elementary, both of which home grades K-3.

Fort Stockton Intermediate School homes grades 4-5, while Fort Stockton Middle School homes grades 6-8 and Fort Stockton High School homes grades 9-12.

Fort Stockton is also home to the Midland College Williams Regional Technical Training Center (WRTTC).

The center was assembled in 1996 through a joint accomplishment by Midland College, and by leaders of Fort Stockton education, business, and government as a means to movement college studies and workforce evolution in this part of West Texas.

Fort Stockton and Pecos County are part of the Midland College service area.

After just four years, the facility, titled in honor of Fort Stockton native and WRTTC donor Clayton Williams, Jr., doubled in size through fundraising and program development.

The Fort Stockton Division of La Escalera Ranch consists of 223,000 adjoining acres in Pecos County and Brewster County and stretches from U.S.

The Seymour Division of La Escalera Ranch near Seymour, Texas consists of 34,000 adjoining acres in Baylor County and Archer County.

For more than 100 years, Elsinore Cattle Company owned and directed the Elsinore Ranch ("LS Ranch") in Pecos County and Brewster County.

The Fort Stockton Division of the ranch in Pecos County and Brewster County is known for its Desert mule deer, pronghorn, elk, Barbary sheep (aoudad), coyote, bobcat, Rio Grande turkey and quail.

The historic Comanche War Trail passes through the Fort Stockton Division ranch and the internationally famous Sierra Madera crater is positioned on the East side of U.

Route 385 near the entrance to the Fort Stockton Division ranch headquarters.

La Escalera Ranch has been ranked by Texas Monthly, Worth, and The Land Report magazines as one of the biggest ranches in Texas.

Buenger (born 1951), historian of Texas and the American South at Texas A&M University, was reared in Fort Stockton.

Comanche Springs Texas Historical Marker, 1968 a b c d e f g h i j k Williams, C.W., 1982, Texas' Last Frontier, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 0890 - 961263 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fort Stockton, Texas.

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