Killeen, Texas Killeen, Texas City of Killeen Location of Killeen, Texas Location of Killeen, Texas Killeen is a town/city in Bell County, Texas, United States.
According to the recent populations estimates, its populace was 140,806, making it the 21st most crowded city in Texas.
It is the principal town/city of the Killeen Temple Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Killeen is directly adjoining to the chief cantonment of Fort Hood, and as such its economy heavily depends on the post and the soldiers (and their families) stationed there.
Many of the inhabitants of the encircling smaller communities in the region moved to Killeen, and by 1884 the town had grown to include about 350 citizens , served by five general stores, two gristmills, two cotton gins, two saloons, a lumberyard, a blacksmith shop, and a hotel.
Killeen period as it became an meaningful shipping point for cotton, wool, and grain in Bell and easterly Coryell counties.
About 780 citizens lived in Killeen by 1900.
Around 1905, small-town politicians and businessmen convinced the Texas council to build bridges over Cowhouse Creek and other streams, doubling Killeen's trade area.
Until the 1940s Killeen remained a mostly small and isolated farm trade center, but this changed drastically after 1942, when Camp Hood (re-commissioned as Fort Hood in 1950) was created as a military training post to meet the demands of the Second World War.
Laborers, assembly workers, contractors, soldiers, and their families moved into the region by the thousands, and Killeen became a military boomtown.
The opening of Camp Hood also radically altered the nature of the small-town economy, since the widespread new military post veiled almost half of Killeen's farming trade area.
Killeen suffered a recession when Camp Hood was all but abandoned after the end of the Second World War, but when Fort Hood was established as a permanent army post in 1950, the town/city boomed again.
Troop cutbacks and transfers in the mid-1950s led to another recession in Killeen which lasted until 1959, when various divisions were returned to Fort Hood.
By 1970 Killeen had advanced into a town/city of 35,507 inhabitants and had added a municipal airport, a new municipal library, and a junior college (Central Texas College).
By 1980, when the census counted 49,307 citizens in Killeen, it was the biggest city in Bell County.
In addition to shaping small-town economic evolution after 1950, the military existence at Fort Hood also changed the city's racial, religious, and ethnic composition.
No blacks lived in the town/city in 1950, for example, but by the early 1950s the town had added Marlboro Heights, an all-black subdivision, and in 1956 the town/city school board voted to integrate the small-town high school.
On October 16, 1991, George Hennard murdered 23 citizens and then committed suicide at the Luby's in Killeen (see Luby's shooting).
In December 1991, one of Killeen's high school football teams, the Killeen Kangaroos, won the 5-A Division I state football championship by defeating Sugar Land Dulles 14 10 in the Astrodome. By 2000, the census listed Killeen's populace as 86,911, and by 2010 it was over 127,000, making it one of the fastest-growing areas in the nation. A large number of military personnel from Killeen have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On November 5, 2009, only a several miles from the site of the Luby's massacre, a gunman opened fire on citizens at the Fort Hood military base with a handgun, killing 13 and wounding 32.
In 2011, Killeen got media consideration from a new tv series called Surprise Homecoming, hosted by Billy Ray Cyrus, about military families that have loved ones returning home from overseas. On April 2, 2014, a second shooting spree occurred at a several locations at Fort Hood.
Killeen is positioned in Bell County at 31 6 20 N 97 43 36 W (31.105591, 97.726586). It is bordered to the north by Fort Hood and to the east by Harker Heights.
Killeen is 16 miles (26 km) west of Belton, the governmental center of county and nearest access to Interstate 35.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 54.2 square miles (140.5 km2), of which 53.6 square miles (138.8 km2) is territory and 0.66 square miles (1.7 km2), or 1.24%, is water. Climate data for Killeen, Texas In 2007, Coldwell Banker ranked Killeen, Texas as the most affordable housing market in the United States with an average cost of $136,725. According to the city's 2008 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 Killeen Independent School District 6,000 6 City of Killeen 1,100 Killeen Mall serves as the city's chief shopping destination, and one of two county-wide shopping malls in Bell County.
Killeen is home to Vive Les Arts Theatre, a full-time arts organization which produces a several Main Stage and Children's Theatre shows each year.
The adoption of the City Charter in 1949 established the council-manager form of government that the City of Killeen still operates under today.
He does, however, preside over the city's seven-member City Council, which sets all policy.
The town/city elects its mayor and three council members at large, meaning that every registered voter inside the town/city limits may vote for all four positions.
According to the city's 2008 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the city's various funds had $133.4 million in revenues, $119.0 million in expenditures, $523.3 million in total assets, $219.9 million in total liabilities, and $90.4 million in cash and investments. The Killeen Independent School District (KISD) is the biggest school precinct between Round Rock and Dallas, encompassing Killeen, Harker Heights, Fort Hood, Nolanville, and non-urban west Bell County.
KISD has, thirty-two elementary schools (PK 5), eleven middle schools (6 8), four high schools (9 12), and five specialized campuses.
KISD's four high schools and mascots are the Killeen High School Kangaroos (the initial citywide high school), the Ellison High School Eagles, Harker Heights High School Knights, and the Shoemaker High School Grey Wolves.
Memorial Christian Academy (K-12) and Creek View Academy (previously Destiny School), a K-9 charter school of Honors Academy, are in Killeen. In 2015 Killeen added it's very own Early College High School.
Central Texas College was established in 1965 to serve Bell, Burnet, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Llano, Mason, Mills and San Saba counties in addition to Fort Hood.
Texas A&M University-Central Texas was established in September 1, 1999 as Tarleton State University-Central Texas.
See also: List of newspapers in Texas, List of airways broadcasts in Texas, and List of tv stations in Texas Killeen's chief journal is the Killeen Daily Herald, which has been publishing under different formats since 1890. The paper was one of four owned by the legendary Texas publisher Frank W.
The Herald also prints the Fort Hood Herald, an autonomous printed announcement in the Fort Hood area, not authorized by Fort Hood Public Affairs, and the Cove Herald, a weekly paper for the inhabitants of Copperas Cove.
The official paper of Fort Hood is The Fort Hood Sentinel, an authorized printed announcement for members of the U.S.
Killeen is served by a small county-wide airfield known as Skylark Field (ILE) and the larger Killeen Fort Hood Regional Airport (GRK).
Highway 190 (Central Texas Expressway or Cen - Tex), Business Loop 190 (Veterans Memorial Boulevard), State Highway 195, and Spur 172 (leading into Fort Hood chief gate).
The town/city of Killeen is protected by two municipal civil service departments, the Killeen Fire Department and the Killeen Police Department.
The Killeen Fire Department is separated into three separate divisions; Training, Fire Prevention, and Operation.
They also host a two-year program in conjunction with the Killeen Independent School District that allows high school juniors and seniors to turn into certified firefighters while graduating from high school.
The Killeen Fire Department and Killeen Independent School District are the first in the State to have such a program.
The Killeen Fire Department holds classes regarding child safety seats every first and third Thursday of the month.
The Killeen Fire Department hosts annual immunization drives.
They are also hosted on a monthly basis on every second Saturday (except for August) from 10:00 2:00 at the Killeen Fire Training Center.
The Killeen Fire Department's Fire Prevention Division is responsible for the investigation of all fires, both accidental and malicious.
KFD recently relocated Fire Station #1 to a new facility on Westcliff Road to furnish improved responses in the northern areas of the town/city and Fire Station #9 is presently being prepared on the southwest region of town to advancement protection to the burgeoning population in that area.
In 2008, there were 885 violent crimes and 4,757 non-violent crimes reported in the town/city of Killeen as part of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) Program.
Killeen's 2008 UCR Part 1 crimes break down as follows: Crime Reported offenses Killeen rate Texas rate U.S.
The Killeen rates are figured using the estimated 2008 populace figure of 115,906 as provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Amerie, R&B singer; father was stationed at Fort Hood and she lived in Killeen and attended Ellison High School at one time Michael Cummings, quarterback for Kansas Jayhawks, Attended Killeen High School.
Tommie Harris, defensive tackle for the NFL's Chicago Bears; former star at Ellison High School in Killeen Oveta Culp Hobby, United States Army- first woman to earn the project of a colonel in the United States Army, and first secretary of the former United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare Played at Baylor from 2009-2014 & Attended Killeen High School.
Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry, of Sister, Sister fame; father was stationed at Fort Hood and they lived in Killeen for a short time Elvis Presley, stationed at Fort Hood and lived in Killeen for a short time Darrol Ray, NFL player, Attended Killeen High School, where he played quarterback.
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