Plainview, Texas Plainview Texas Plainview Texas is positioned in Texas Plainview Texas - Plainview Texas Location of Plainview, Texas Plainview is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Hale County, Texas, United States. The populace was 22,194 at the 2010 census.
Plainview is positioned at 34 11 28 N 101 43 8 W (34.191204, -101.718806) and is positioned on the Llano Estacado.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.8 square miles (36 km2), all land.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Plainview has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. In the city, the populace was spread out with 31.0% under the age of 18, 11.5% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 18.0% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $31,551, and the median income for a family was $35,215.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice Region V office is positioned in Plainview. The current Region V command posts opened in 1996 in a former Bank of America building. Michael Egnew, played football for Plainview High School, the University of Missouri, Miami Dolphins and the Pittsburgh Steelers Marshall Formby, a former county judge for Dickens County and a state senator, practiced law in Plainview and owned a chain of West Texas airways broadcasts Jim Landtroop, member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 85, then in Plainview (2011-2013); moved to District 88 in 2012 and unseated by fellow Republican Ken King of Canadian Pete Laney, longtime District Representative and Speaker of the House of Texas Leah Kay Lyle, Miss Texas 1989 and Top 10 finalist in Miss America 1989 pageant Emily Jones Mc - Coy, dugout reporter for Texas Rangers baseball team; businesswoman (www.poshplaymat.com); previously reporter for KCBD Lubbock, Texas and FSN (Fox Sports Network) Lawrence Mc - Cutcheon, running back for the Los Angeles Rams from 1972 1979, the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks in 1980 and the Buffalo Bills in 1981, was born in Plainview and played football for the Plainview Bulldogs Gary Painter, (born 1947), sheriff of Midland County who warned in 2014 about ISIS terrorism coming from the Mexican border, graduated in 1965 from Plainview High School but lived in Edmonson Phil Stephenson, member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 85 (now Wharton County); 1964 graduate of Plainview High School The 1992 Steve Martin film Leap of Faith was partially filmed on locale in Plainview.
In the eighteenth episode of the second season of Vice Plainview was featured as a ghost town in a feature called "Deliver Us from Drought".
The City of Plainview is served by the Plainview Independent School District.
Wayland Baptist University is a four-year college with approximately 1100 students at its chief campus in Plainview.
The Llano Estacado Museum is positioned in Plainview.
The Bulldog is the mascot for the Plainview High School.
On February 11, 2009, the Texas Department of State Health Services ordered the cessation of operations and full recall of all products produced by a Plainview-based peanut refining facility owned by Peanut Corporation of America, following the discernment of "dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in the plant," and revelations that the plant had directed without state licensure or inspection.
The biggest employer was a Cargill beef refining plant, mothballed on February 1, 2013 due to lack of incoming animals from the small-town region due to the 2010 2012 Southern United States drought.
Closure of the plant created a crisis in Plainview as an annual payroll of $15.5 million was lost and many of the 2,300 employees and their families relocated after being laid off. Plainview Commercial Historic District Climate Summary for Plainview, Texas "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Texas Sheriff: Reports Warn of ISIS Terrorist Cells Coming Across the Border".
Peanut plant suspends operations 02-10-09, Plainview Daily Herald, February 10, 2009 Plainview in the Handbook of Texas Municipalities and communities of Hale County, Texas, United States State of Texas County seats of Texas
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