Temple, Texas Temple, Texas City of Temple Downtown Temple Downtown Temple Flag of Temple, Texas Flag Official seal of Temple, Texas Location of Temple, Texas Location of Temple, Texas Temple is a town/city in Bell County, Texas, United States.
Located near the governmental center of county of Belton, Temple lies in the region referred to as Central Texas and is a principal town/city in the Killeen Temple Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The metro region has a populace of 450,051. Located off Interstate 35, Temple is 65 miles (105 km) north of Austin and 34 miles (55 km) south of Waco.
Temple has advanced as a small town/city with a number of arts and retail amenities not typically associated with a lesser community.
Temple was established as a barns town in 1881, by the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad.
It was incorporated in 1882. The town was titled after a Santa Fe Railroad official, Bernard Moore Temple. Temple was a civil engineer and former surveyor with the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company.
In 1882, the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad assembled through the town, and soon after, the Santa Fe barns made Temple a division point.
In its early years, Temple was a town of shacks and tents with a large number of saloons and tough characters found in the early West.
After the town was incorporated in 1882, two private schools were established in the city: the Temple Academy was organized and enhance school was established in 1884.
In 1893, the annual Temple Stag Party began, burgeoning out of a private Thanksgiving celebration attended by the town's dominant men.
The Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum, on the second floor of the Santa Fe Railroad station at 315 West Avenue B, memorializes the connection between barns s and the city. Temple is positioned northeast of the center of Bell County at 31 6 30 N 97 23 21 W (31.108381, -97.389125).
Temple is situated inside a mostly short drive of most of the primary cities of Texas: 124 mi north to Fort Worth, 130 mi north-northeast to Dallas, 65 mi southwest to Austin, 147 mi southwest to San Antonio, and 168 mi southeast to Houston.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 74.9 square miles (194 km2), of which, 70.1 square miles (182 km2) of it is territory and 4.8 square miles (12 km2) is water.
Climate data for Temple, Texas Temple welcome sign on Interstate 35 Temple has a homeless populace of 1.9% on average.
Temple now thrives in a complex economy, with both goods distribution and its reputation as a county-wide medical center dominant the way.
Baylor Scott & White is the biggest employer in the region with about 12,000 employees, most positioned at Scott & White Medical Center - Temple.
Temple is home to many county-wide distribution centers and is command posts to two large, multi-national companies, Wilsonart International and Mc - Lane Company, as well as parent Mc - Lane Group.
Temple is also home to the Temple Bottling Company which produces Dr Pepper (with Imperial Cane sugar).
Temple is inside 30 miles (48 km) of Fort Hood, and military personnel contribute a portion of the city's economy.
Temple is largely served by the Temple Independent School District.
The precinct has one high school, three middle schools, nine elementary schools, and three supplemental learning programs (early childhood center, alternative learning center and an innovative academy high school program).
Students inside the small-town school precinct attend highly regarded Temple High School. In addition to award-winning academic programs in arts and sciences, the high-school has a grow athletic program.
Several private schools serve Temple, including Christ Church School, Saint Mary's Catholic School (Pre K-8), the associated Holy Trinity Catholic High School, and Central Texas Christian School (K 12). Temple College offers two-year associate degrees in a range of subjects, with strong programs in company administration, knowledge technology and nursing.
Temple College was the first college positioned in Temple, and opened in 1926. Temple is also home to one of the Texas A&M College of Medicine campuses.
Next to Belton is home to the University of Mary Hardin Baylor, and Killeen hosts Texas A&M University Central Texas.
Temple is inside a short drive of a several other county-wide and nationwide universities: Baylor University in Waco, the University of Texas in Austin and Texas A&M University in College Station, and Southwestern University in Georgetown.
The chief city journal is the Temple Daily Telegram.
Radio stations licensed in Temple include FM stations KVLT-FM, KBDE-FM, KLTD-FM, and KRYH-LP; and AM stations News Radio 1400, and a number of other close-by airways broadcasts can be heard in Temple. KCEN-TV is the only tv station licensed in Temple, and a number of broadcast channels are available in the city. Temple is served by Charter Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable), Direc - TV, Dish Network, and Grande Communications. Temple Amtrak station originally assembled as an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot Temple was established as a barns junction and serves as a primary freight barns core to this day.
Amtrak serves the town/city with its Texas Eagle passenger train, which stops at the Temple Railway Station.
Temple has general aviation services via Draughon-Miller Central Texas Regional Airport.
While commercial airline service is not presently available in the city, Temple is served by these close-by airports: In 2009, the Texas Department of Transportation (Tx - DOT) proposed the Texas T-Bone High Speed Rail Corridor that would problematic a high-speed rail (HSR) line from Dallas to San Antonio and another line from Houston that would connect with the first line. While the locale for the connection of the two lines had not been officially established, the mayor at the time, Bill Jones III, made an accomplishment to ensure that connection happened in Temple. It was also noted in that plan that Temple would be a stop along the line regardless of where that connection between the two lines would be.
The next year in 2010, Tx - DOT received a federal grant to conduct a study for a HSR line connecting Oklahoma City with San Antonio, and Temple was in the pathway of that HSR line. In 2013, a consultant for the Texas High Speed Rail Corporation stated that the only two connections being considered for the two lines were a connection in Temple and a connection in San Antonio; they expect to make that decision by the end of 2014.
The organization also pointed out that they plan to have HSR in operation by 2025. If that connection occurred in Temple, the Killeen Temple Fort Hood urbane area, with a populace of 420,375, would be inside approximately 45 minutes of Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
Temple is known as a county-wide medical center, with three primary hospitals, Scott & White Medical Center - Temple, Mc - Lane Scott & White Children's Hospital, and Olin E.
As of 2011, the Temple region has the most number of physicians per capita in Texas, at 225.3 physicians per 100,000 residents, with the town/city totalling 230.0 physicians per 100,000 residents. Scott & White is the biggest employer in town with about 12,000 employees.
Temple home to one of the Texas A&M College of Medicine campuses.
Temple is policed by the Temple Police Department and the Bell County Sheriff's Office.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates a county-wide office in the city. The Texas Highway Patrol's Waco precinct maintains an office on I-35 in Temple. A water fortress advertising the City of Temple's official website Adkins, dean of Temple College in the 1940s and beginning president of Laredo Community College, 1947 to 1960 Craig Mc - Murtry, former pitcher for the Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers, baseball coach for Temple College.
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