Lampasas, Texas Lampasas, Texas The Lampasas County Courthouse was instead of in 1884.
The Lampasas County Courthouse was instead of in 1884.
Location of Lampasas, Texas Location of Lampasas, Texas State Texas County Lampasas Lampasas (/l m p s s/ lam-pass- s) is a town/city in Lampasas County, Texas, United States.
Lampasas is part of the Killeen Temple Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.
For his services in the Texas Revolution, John Burleson received 1,280 acres (5.2 km2) of territory and established a permanent settlement in the 1850s.
The town/city was first titled Burleson; however, the name was gradually changed to Lampasas Springs because of the existence of seven mineral springs.
The town/city of Lampasas was officially incorporated in 1883.
Several theories attempt to explain how the name Lampasas came to be.
The Texas Almanac states the word came from a Spanish word for "lilies" found in close-by streams.
The Mother's Day Flood of 1957 saw Sulphur Creek, a small-town river, strike the town/city in devastating flash flood which claimed five lives and finished many homes, businesses, and other property around downtown Lampasas.
Since 1972, Lampasas has held an annual fair called the Spring Ho festival each July. The 25-bed Rollins Brook Community Hospital in Lampasas was established by two physicians in 1935, one of whom was Herbert Bailey Rollins, originally from Pineville, Kentucky.
In 1958, Rollins Brook was the smallest accredited hospital in Texas.
Lampasas is positioned at 31 3 57 N 98 11 0 W (31.065868, -98.183444). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.3 square miles (16.1 km ), of which, 6.2 square miles (16 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.64%) is veiled by water.
Of the 2,554 homeholds, 33.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.4% were married couples living together, 13.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 33.0% were not families.
In the city, the populace was distributed as 27.6% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 18.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Shyler D, front man for the former Shyler D Band lives on his family's ranch in Lampasas.
The music video for Texas Sunrise was shot entirely on locale at the family ranch.
Lance Garner, a coach from Lampasas Middle School is a former Arena Football kicker The town/city of Lampasas is served by the Lampasas Independent School District.
"Lampasas, Texas" is the title of the second episode of the CBS Western tv series Trackdown, starring Robert Culp as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman.
According to the Koppen climate classification system, Lampasas has a humid subtropical climate, Cfa. Patricia Benoit, Temple Daily Telegram, "Beside the Healing Waters: Rescuing Rollins Brook Community Hospital", West Texas Historical Association, annual meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, February 27, 2010 Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", West Texas Historical Review, Vol.
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