Hillsboro, Texas Hillsboro, Texas Historic City Hall in Hillsboro is situated in former fire station Historic City Hall in Hillsboro is situated in former fire station Location of Hillsboro, Texas Location of Hillsboro, Texas State Texas Historic Downtown Hillsboro District sign Downtown Hillsboro First Baptist Church in Hillsboro; pastor, Danny J.
The supply mall in Hillsboro is positioned east of Interstate 35.
Hillsboro is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Hill County in Central Texas.
Hillsboro, positioned on Interstate 35 where I-35 - E and I-35 - W split south of the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex, is the major center for trade and commerce in Hill County.
The town/city is known for its abundance of restored Victorian homes and its historic county courthouse, which on January 1, 1993 was heavily damaged by an electrical fire.
The courthouse (See Hill County, Texas for photograph.) won the Downtown Association's 1999 award for "Best Restoration".
The renovation sparked an interest in restoring Texas's historic courthouses. The Hill County courthouse is eight miles from Willie Nelson's hometown, Abbott.
The movie Bottle Rocket, starring Owen and Luke Wilson, was filmed here. They used the Days Inn motel, the Hillsboro High School football stadium, and Highway 171 dominant out of Hillsboro.
Hillsboro was titled for Hill County. At one point amid Bonnie and Clyde's robberies in Hillsboro, they took the Peterson family hostage at their own farm.
Hillsboro is positioned at 32 0 34 N 97 7 28 W (32.009557, -97.124437). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.2 square miles (24 km2), of which, 9.1 square miles (24 km2) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.98%) is water.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.7% under the age of 18, 12.5% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 17.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $26,017, and the median income for a family was $30,297.
The City of Hillsboro is served by the Hillsboro Independent School District.
Hillsboro was the first home of the Texas Musicians Museum, which relocated to close-by downtown Waxahachie in Ellis County for a short while, until the building owners filed for bankruptcy.
Now open in a brand new multimillion-dollar facility in downtown Irving's Heritage Crossing District, the exhibition homes displays of Texas musicians and Texas music memorabilia, including the initial casket of J.P.
Located a several miles north by northwest of Hillsboro, the Middlefaire site features a Renaissance Festival and Texas Pirate Festival.
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Hillsboro Residential Historic District Roughly bounded by Country Club Rd., Thompson, Corsicana, Pleasant, Franklin, and Elm Sts.
Robert Lee Bobbitt, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, state attorney general, and chairman of the Texas Highway Commission Bob Bullock, former Texas lieutenant governor, comptroller, secretary of state, and state representative Crawford Martin, former Attorney General of Texas, Texas Secretary of State, Texas State Senator, and mayor of Hillsboro According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Hillsboro has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. City of Hillsboro (February 2016).
"Dallas Film Commission | Film Tourism" The Dallas Film Commission, Retrieved 2012-06-07 "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Hillsboro, Texas Koppen Climate Classification".
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