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Location of Hereford, Texas Location of Hereford, Texas Deaf Smith County Hereford.svg State Texas County Deaf Smith Hereford (/ h rf rd/ hur-furd) is a town/city in and governmental center of county of Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States.
The populace was 15,370 at the 2010 census. It is the only incorporated locality titled "Hereford" in the country. Hereford's small-town waterworks contains an unusually high level of naturally occurring fluorine.
Because fluoride is used to protect against tooth decay, Hereford earned the title "The Town Without a Toothache".
The town/city is titled for the Hereford breed.
Hereford is home to the command posts of the Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative, which serves Deaf Smith, Castro, Parmer, and Oldham counties. A rich Western tradition includes the Las Escarbadas ranch home of the XIT Ranch positioned southwest of Hereford in Deaf Smith County.
The Deaf Smith County Historical Museum at 400 Sampson Street in Hereford offers indoor and outside exhibits on the settlement of West Texas.
In December 2015, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer voted Hereford not only the "most conservative" town/city in Texas but in the United States as well in terms of political contributions.
Hereford was established as "Blue Water" in 1899 after the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway connected Amarillo to Farwell.
After it was identified that there was already a town titled Blue Water, inhabitants retitled the town "Hereford" with respect to the cattle of the small-town ranchers. Hereford is positioned in southeastern Deaf Smith County at 34 49 19 N 102 23 55 W (34.821961, -102.398617) and is positioned on the Llano Estacado.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.9 square miles (15.4 km2), all land. Highway 60 passes through the town/city as 1st Street, dominant northeast 48 miles (77 km) to Amarillo and southwest 57 miles (92 km) to Clovis, New Mexico.
Highway 385 (25 Mile Avenue) runs north-south through the city, dominant north 30 miles (48 km) to Interstate 40 at Vega and south 20 miles (32 km) to Dimmitt.
Hereford's climate is classified as a steppe climate (BSk) using the 2006 map of Koppen climate classification, meaning it is semi-arid. Hereford was titled as the "coolest" town/city in Texas with an average summer temperature of 73 F or 22.8 C. Climate data for Hereford, Texas Average snowy days 1.9 1.6 0.8 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.8 2.0 7.6 The average homehold size was 2.96 and the average family size was 3.44.
In the city, the populace was distributed as 34.0% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 18.1% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The first enhance school was opened in 1900. Today, Hereford's seven enhance schools serve around 4,000 students and are directed by the Hereford Independent School District. Ron Ely, best remembered for his part as Tarzan on an NBC tv series in the middle 1960s, was born in Hereford in 1938.
Jesse Frank Ford, a nutritionist, began Arrowhead Mills, a health-food business in Hereford in 1960.
Clint Formby (1923 2010), radio broadcaster at KPAN AM&FM in Hereford since 1955, had the longest running one-person program in radio history.
The station was begun in 1948 by his uncle, Marshall Formby, a former state senator and highway commissioner from West Texas.
Clint Formby's wife, Margaret Clark Formby (1929 2003), established the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Hereford and relocated it to the larger tourist market in Fort Worth.
Edgar Mitchell (1930-2016) was an American pilot and astronaut who was born in Hereford in 1930.
Downtown Hereford, with the grain elevator to the rear Hereford City Hall First Bank Southwest in Hereford Anthony's Roman Catholic Church in Hereford is positioned off U.S.
Swimming in Hereford Hereford train depot Hereford Brand journal office The former Mills Ranch Western Store, once a fixture of downtown Hereford a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Hereford city, Texas".
Spotlight on CRC Member: Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative.
"Hereford, TX".
"Monthly Averages for Hereford, TX".
"NCDC: Climatography of the United States, No.
20, 1971 2000: Hereford, Texas" (PDF).
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
The Handbook of Texas Online, retrieved 2009-12-30 Hereford ISD, retrieved 2009-12-30 City of Hereford official website Historic photographs of Hereford from the Deaf Smith County Library hosted by the Portal to Texas History Municipalities and communities of Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States County seats of Texas
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