Van Horn, Texas Van Horn, Texas The chief drag through Van Horn The chief drag through Van Horn Country United States State Texas Van Horn is a town in and the governmental center of county of Culberson County, Texas, in the United States. According to the 2010 census, Van Horn had a populace of 2,063, down from 2,435 at the 2000 census.
It is the westernmost incorporated improve in the Central Time Zone part of the state of Texas.
Van Horn is positioned in southwestern Culberson County at 31 2 33 N 104 49 59 W (31.042489, -104.832928). Interstate 10 passes through the town, dominant east 120 miles (190 km) to Fort Stockton and northwest 118 miles (190 km) to El Paso.
Van Horn is the end of U.S.
Route 90; from Van Horn it leads southeast 73 miles (117 km) to Marfa.
Texas State Highway 54 leads north from Van Horn 65 miles (105 km) to Pine Springs and the Guadalupe Mountains.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2), all land. Threemile Peak (or Threemile Mountain), altitude 4,868 feet (1,484 m), rises to the northwest overlooking the town.
Van Horn is the westernmost town in the U.S.
Threemile Mountain, note "V" for Van Horn Climate data for Van Horn, Texas (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 Van Horn Volunteer Fire Department Army Major Jefferson Van Horne is believed to have passed near the region in 1849 on his way to take command of what would later turn into Fort Bliss, the town is instead titled for Lt.
James Judson Van Horn who commanded an army garrison at the Van Horn Wells beginning in 1859.
Van Horn's command was mostly short-lived, as the post was seized by Confederate forces in 1861 and Lt.
Van Horn taken prisoner. Settlement was further stimulated by the assembly of the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1881. The town has a several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places including the First Presbyterian Church (now Primera Iglesia Bautista), assembled in 1901.
Van Horn City Hall Van Horn City-County Library Van Horn is served by the Culberson County-Allamoore Independent School District and is home to the Van Horn High School Eagles.
Van Horn Post Office The United States Postal Service operates the Van Horn Post Office. In late 2006, The Wall Street Journal reported that Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of amazon.com, had acquired 290,000 acres (1,200 km2) of territory 25 miles (40 km) north of Van Horn, including the Figure 2 Ranch Airport, to home his fledgling space tourism company, Blue Origin.
As of 2008, Blue Origin had been expected to start commercial operations as early as 2010, aiming for 52 launches per year from the Van Horn facility. In 2009 the Van Horn Advocate announced that the Long Now Foundation was starting geologic testing for an underground space to home a 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now, on the Bezos ranch, north of Van Horn. Culberson County Hospital and Van Horn Rural Health Clinic (2013) 12,800 acre Sierra Diablo Ranch north of Van Horn United States Enumeration Bureau.
United States Geological Survey.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Van Horn town, Texas".
"Climate Statistics for Van Horn, Texas".
"Anglo-American Colonization", The Handbook of Texas Online "San Antonio-El Paso Mail", The Handbook of Texas Online.
For more on the establishment of this route, see United States Army, Corps of Topographical Engineers; Joseph Eggleston Johnston; Francis T.
Van Horn see January 26, 1862 correspondence from J.
Benjamin to Major General Benjamin Huger in United States War Department (1891).
"Van Horn, Texas", The Handbook of Texas Online "Van Horne, Jefferson", The Handbook of Texas Online military academy at West Point, N.Y.: from its establishment, in 1802, to 1890; with the early history of the United States military academy.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Post Office Location - VAN HORN." Van Horn spaceport gets NASA backing, Adriana Gomez Licon, El Paso Times, 2010-03-14, accessed 2010-03-17.
"Clock universal to begin near Van Horn, Texas".
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Van Horn.
Town of Van Horn official website Van Horn Advocate, small-town journal Van Horn in the Handbook of Texas Historic Photographs of Van Horn from the Clark Hotel Museum, hosted by the Portal to Texas History Municipalities and communities of Culberson County, Texas, United States State of Texas County seats of Texas
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