Littlefield, Texas Littlefield, Texas City Hall in Littlefield (built 1930) City Hall in Littlefield (built 1930) Municipal building annex in Littlefield Partial view of downtown Littlefield Littlefield water fortress advertises home-town celebrity Waylon Jennings.
Littlefield Lands/Duggan House Museum is positioned on Waylon Jennings Boulevard.
G's Drive-In in Littlefield First Baptist Church in downtown Littlefield Littlefield is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Lamb County, Texas, United States. The populace was 6,372 at the 2010 census. It is positioned in a momentous cotton-growing region, northwest of Lubbock on the Llano Estacado just south of the Texas Panhandle.
Littlefield has a large denim manufacturing plant directed by American Cotton Growers. Littlefield homes the Bill W.
Clayton Detention Center, a 310-bed medium-security facility, which is titled for the former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, who resided in Springlake.
Near Littlefield is the Triple Arrow Ranch, known for its historical remnants, owned by Lamb County Commissioner's Court Judge and Mrs.
Littlefield is titled for George Washington Littlefield (1842 1920), a Mississippi native, Confederate officer, cattleman, banker, and benefactor of the University of Texas at Austin. In July 1901, Littlefield purchased the southern, or Yellow Houses, division of the XIT Ranch, forming the Yellow House Ranch. At that time, the ranch veiled 312,175 acres (126,333 ha) in Lamb, Hockley, Bailey, and Cochran Counties. In 1912, when surveys showed that a new rail line from Coleman, Texas, to Texico, New Mexico, would pass through his property, Littlefield formed the Littlefield Lands Company to sell the northeastern corner of the Yellow House Ranch, a total of 79,040 acres (31,990 ha), to pioneer and to establish the town of Littlefield in Lamb County. Littlefield became a stop on the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway in 1913. Littlefield is positioned at 33 55 02 N 102 19 30 W (33.9173148, -102.3249022). Much like close-by Lubbock, Littlefield has a mild, semiarid climate.
On average, Littlefield receives 18 inches (460 mm) of rain per year. Summers in Littlefield are hot, with high temperatures in the 90s F (32 - 37 C) and dropping into the 60s F (15 - 20& C) at evenings.
The highest recorded temperature was 112 F (44 C) in 1994. Winter days in Littlefield are typically sunny and mostly mild in the mid 50s F (13 C), but evenings are cold with temperatures dipping to the mid 20s F (-4 C).
The economy of Littlefield is diverse but traditionally depends on cotton.
American Cotton Growers Denim Textile Plant of Littlefield is the biggest employer in Littlefield and Lamb County. Plains Cotton Cooperative Association of Lubbock, a farmer-owned cotton-marketing cooperative purchased the denim plant from ACG in 1987.
American Cotton Growers announced the closure of their Littlefield denim foundry on Friday Nov 07, 2014.
In August 2008, Littlefield was chose as the new locale for a biodiesel plant.
Littlefield is the hometown of singer/songwriter Waylon Jennings.
On October 26, 1943, Littlefield was shocked by the murder of physician Roy Hunt and his wife, the former Mae Franks.
Hunt, a Lubbock native, graduated from the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston and opened the Littlefield Clinic in 1937.
An estimated 1,500 mourners attended the funerals in the First Methodist Church of Littlefield, which seated only 300.
Roy Hunt Murder - Littlefield, Texas 1942 - 1943 was written in 2009 by a Littlefield native, Dana Middlebrooks Samuelson and Robert Samuelson, M.D.
Littlefield is served by Lubbock International Airport and Littlefield Municipal Airport, a general aviation airport which can accommodate small jets, positioned roughly 2 miles (3 km) outside of the Littlefield town/city limits.
Littlefield sits at the crossroad of US Hwy 84 which runs from Midway, Georgia, to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and US Highway 385, which runs from Deadwood, South Dakota, to Big Bend National Park in Texas.
The City of Littlefield is served by the Littlefield Independent School District and by a branch of South Plains College.
Gene Mayfield (1928 2009), a high school and college football coach, began his longterm position in Littlefield.
According to the Koppen climate classification system, Littlefield has a semiarid climate, BSk on climate maps. "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Littlefield city, Texas".
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"Barn dance to support Littlefield home exhibition and jubilate Waylon's birthday".
Christena Stephens of Sundown, Texas, "The Hunt Murders in Littlefield, Texas, 1943", Annual meeting, West Texas Historical Association, Lubbock, Texas, April 3, 2009; The paper was presented under the title "Double Murder in a Small West Texas Town" in the West Texas Historical Association Year Book.
Christena Stephens, "Catching a Criminal in Early West Texas", West Texas Historical Association, annual meeting, April 1, 2011, Lubbock, Texas Climate Summary for Littlefield, Texas Wikimedia Commons has media related to Littlefield, Texas.
Littlefield, TX from the Handbook of Texas Online Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Littlefield Littlefield at DMOZ Municipalities and communities of Lamb County, Texas, United States
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