Pampa, Texas Pampa, Texas Pampa company precinct Pampa company precinct Location of Pampa, Texas Location of Pampa, Texas State Texas Pampa is a town/city in Gray County, Texas, United States.
The populace was 17,994 as of the 2010 census. Pampa is the governmental center of county of Gray County and is the principal town/city of the Pampa Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes both Gray and Roberts counties. Pampa hosts the Top 'O Texas Rodeo each year in July, which brings competitors from Texas and the encircling states to Gray County.
In 1888, the Santa Fe Railroad was constructed through the region where Pampa would be established.
The town was first called "Glasgow", then "Sutton", and then the name was changed to "Pampa" after the pampas grasslands of South America at Mr.
Timothy Dwight Hobart, a native of Vermont, sold plots of territory for the town only to citizens who agreed to settle there and precarious the land, and Pampa soon became a center for agriculture.
Pampa prospered greatly in the resulting petroleum boom, and the Gray County seat of government was moved in 1928 from Lefors to Pampa. By the 1920s, Pampa was linked by rail to Hemphill County and Clinton, Oklahoma, through the combination of two similarly-named companies, the Clinton, Oklahoma, and Western Railroad Company and the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas.
Pampa is positioned in northwestern Gray County at 35 32 35 N 100 57 53 W (35.543005, -100.964744). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total territory area of 9.0 square miles (23.2 km2), all of it land. Route 60 passes through Pampa, dominant northeast 46 miles (74 km) to Canadian and southwest 54 miles (87 km) to Amarillo.
Texas State Highway 70 crosses US 60 in the southwest part of Pampa and leads north 62 miles (100 km) to Perryton and south 24 miles (39 km) to Interstate 40.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 80.9% White, 3.3% Black, 0.8% American Indian or Alaskian Native, 0.4% Asian, had 2.6% reporting 2 or more competitions.
Persons under 18 years of age accounted for 27%, and under 5 years of age accounted for 8.1%.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 83.69% White, 3.85% African American, 1.07% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 8.22% from other competitions, and 2.73% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.9% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 18.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $31,213, and the median income for a family was $39,810.
The Pampa News is a daily journal presented in Pampa.
It serves Pampa and the encircling areas of Gray County.
The town/city is served by the Pampa Independent School District.
The school precinct administers four elementary schools (Austin, Lamar, Travis and Wilson) and one junior high school.
Pampa High School and the non-traditional Pampa Learning Center are also part of the school system.
Pampa is also served by the Pampa Center branch of Clarendon College.
In 1985 the Harrington Foundation of Amarillo paid for the computerization of library records, joining the library for the first time into a consortium with most of the enhance libraries in the Panhandle.
Baker school on the south side, where the library was set up in the cafeteria and classroom annex in the south part of the school complex.
Franklin, prominent rancher of Pampa, would donate two statues to the library to honor the 50th anniversary of the opening of the building in January 1955.
Climate data for Pampa, Texas On June 8, 1995, a tornado hit the industrialized section on the west side of Pampa, destroying or damaging about 250 businesses and homes.
Phil Cates (1947-2014), former state representative for House District 66; later a lobbyist in Austin Duane Lee Chapman, or Dog the Bounty Hunter, was raised in Pampa.
Warren Chisum, an ally of fellow Republican former Speaker Tom Craddick of Midland, represented Pampa in the Texas House of Representatives, ran unsuccessfully in 2012 for the Railroad Commission of Texas against Craddick's daughter, Christi Craddick.
Ford, most recently the Chairman of the Trustees of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and former Chairman and CEO of the once NYSE publicly interchanged business Liberate Investors, and former Chairman and CEO of the California-based Golden State Bancorp (sold to Citigroup in 2002 for $6.1 billion), is a graduate of Pampa High School and Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Ford Stadium on the ground of SMU in Dallas honors Pampa's Gerald Ford after he donated over $20 million of the estimated $42 million to build the on-campus stadium that replaced Ownby Field.
Representative from Texas's 18th congressional precinct from 1950 to 1951 Woody Guthrie, the songwriter, moved to Pampa with his father Charles Guthrie and attended high school there briefly.
He purchased his first guitar in Pampa and painted the Harris Drug Store sign complete with his signature, which was sandblasted away in 1977.
John Jenkins, former University of Houston head football coach, and former head football coach of the Ottawa Renegades of the Canadian Football League, is a 1970 graduate of Pampa High School and the University of Arkansas.
Sullivan Award winner as the nation's top amateur athlete (1967), is a native of Pampa and graduate of Texas A&M University in College Station.
Tom Mechler, state chairman of the Republican Party of Texas since 2015, former Republican chairman in Gray County, Amarillo businessman Boone Pickens, chairman of the private equity firm BP Capital Management, and former CEO of Mesa Petroleum, presently lives on his ranch north of Pampa.
Representative and State Senator from Pampa, though originally from Kansas, was a Gray County rancher for most of his working life.
Thomas attended Texas Tech and was inducted into the college Hall of Fame in 2006.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Pampa city, Texas".
Texas Department of Transportation, Texas State Travel Guide, 2007, p.
History of Pampa United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"The Pampa News".
The Pampa News.
"Texas' Pampa News announces editor".
"Climatography of the United States NO.20" (PDF).
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Pampa.
City of Pampa official website Pampa in the Handbook of Texas The Pampa News Municipalities and communities of Gray County, Texas, United States County seats of Texas State of Texas
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Cities in Gray County, Texas - Cities in Texas - Pampa, Texas micropolitan region - County seats in Texas
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