Gatesville, Texas Gatesville, Texas Location of Gatesville, Texas Location of Gatesville, Texas Gatesville is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Coryell County, Texas, United States.

The populace was 15,751 at the 2010 census. The town/city has five of the eight prisons and state jails for women directed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

One of the facilities, the Mountain View Unit, has the state's death row for women.

The town/city is positioned northeast of the center of Coryell County at 31 26 12 N 97 44 7 W (31.436755, -97.735257), on the east side of the Leon River, part of the Brazos River watershed.

Texas State Highway 36 passes through the east side of the city, dominant northwest 32 miles (51 km) to Hamilton and southeast 35 miles (56 km) to Temple.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Gatesville has a total region of 8.9 square miles (23.1 km2), of which 0.004 square miles (0.01 km2), or 0.05%, is veiled by water. Due to the establishment of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prisons, from 1980 to 2010, the populace doubled.

Gatesville is the home of a several prisons directed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, including the Mountain View Unit, which homes the women's death row.

Gatesville is positioned on the northern edge of Fort Hood, and as such is also dependent on the military for a part of its economy (besides Fort Hood, a large military vehicle repair facility is positioned on the east side of town). Christina Crain Unit, a women's prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Of the eight Texas Department of Criminal Justice general correctional facilities for women, which include five prisons and three state jails, five of the units, including four prisons and one state jail, are in the City of Gatesville. Mountain View Unit, which homes the state death row for women The Christina Crain Unit prison (formerly Gatesville Unit), the Hilltop Unit prison, the Dr.

Lane Murray Unit prison, and the Linda Woodman Unit state jail are co-located amongst one another.

In addition the Mountain View Unit, a prison with the State of Texas female death row, is in Gatesville.

Hughes Unit, is in Gatesville. As of 2012 there were 5,552 female prisoners and 2,958 male prisoners, totaling 8,510 or over half of the populace of the city. Mountain View Unit opened in July 1975, Crain opened in August 1980, Hilltop opened in November 1981, and Hughes opened in January 1990.

The Murray Unit opened in November 1995, and the Woodman Unit opened in June 1997. Gatesville previously hosted the Gatesville State School and the Mountain View State School, juvenile correctional centers of the Texas Youth Council. The Mountain View State School closed in 1975, and the Gatesville State School closed in 1979. The buildings were transferred to the Texas Department of Corrections and were used as prisons for grownups. The United States Postal Service operates the Gatesville Post Office. Donated in 1991, the Coryell County Museum in Gatesville is home to the Loyd and Madge Mitchell Collection of about 10,000 pairs of spurs, thought to be the biggest such compilation in the world.

In 2001, the 77th Texas Legislature designated Gatesville the "Spur Capital of the Texas". As of 2014, the Last Drive-In Picture Show in Gatesville, opened by Gene Palmer in 1955 and, as of 2004, owned by his son, Audie Gene Palmer (1957 2004) is one of 17 remaining Drive-in theaters in Texas; of those 17, it is one of earliest (sixty-two years old) and longest running without cessation. The Gatesville High School Hornets are the 2000 Texas UIL 4 - A high school football champions.

List of town/city nicknames in Texas National Register of Historic Places listings in Coryell County, Texas Texas State Guard, Army, 2nd Regiment, Gatesville Dodson (1829 1914), architect of the Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Gatesville city, Texas".

"The history of Coryell County to 1920", by Zelma May Scott (1908 1973), University of Texas at Austin (masters thesis) (1946); OCLC 2725 - 1893 Republished by the Texas State Historical Association (1965); OCLC 2193804 Texas County and Local History Series, Vol.

Coryell County History; Stories, by Frank Elmer Simmons (1880 1966) (manuscript; unfinished) (1948); OCLC 5229872, 5229770 History of Coryell County, by John Henry Chrisman (1821 1922) (incomplete: taken from scrapbook in archives) (1945); OCLC 2549 - 8094 Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire, 1st ed., by Robert Perkinson, Metropolitan Books (2010), pg.

"Gatesville's penitentiaries bring 2,600 jobs to Coryell Co." a b c d Texas Department of Criminal Justice "Gatesville city, Texas." a b c "Gatesville State School for Boys", Handbook of Texas (retrieved July 23, 2010) a b c "Mountain View School for Boys",Handbook of Texas (retrieved July 23, 2010) USPS: Gatesville, TX (retrieved February 21, 2014) Gatesville Public Library, City of Gatesville (retrieved May 30, 2010) "Official Capital Designations", State of Texas", Texas State Library and Archives Commission Gatesville, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online Gatesville, Texas Municipalities and communities of Coryell County, Texas, United States State of Texas Architecture Climate Cuisine Geography Government Healthcare History Languages Law Literature Media Newspapers Radio TV National Historic Landmarks Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks National Register of Historic Places Sites Sports Symbols Texans Tourist attractions Transportation Ark La Tex Big Bend Blackland Prairies Brazos Valley Central Texas Coastal Bend Concho Valley Cross Timbers Deep East Texas East Texas Edwards Plateau Golden Triangle Hill Country Llano Estacado Northeast Texas North Texas Osage Plains Panhandle Permian Basin Piney Woods Rio Grande Valley Southeast Texas South Plains South Texas Texoma Trans-Pecos West Texas See: List of counties in Texas County seats of Texas

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