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15 unusual facts about West Texas


Breckenridge High School

Until Gordon Wood's Brownwood Lions eclipsed them in 1960, the Buckaroos were the scourge of West Texas.

Bump gate

While not a common type of gate, it has been observed in several locations in West Texas.

Coaches All-America Game

Lubbock won the bid to host the game over newer stadiums in larger cities, including Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee and San Diego Stadium in San Diego, after the AFCA was convinced that Lubbock's advantages as a college town without competing entertainment would fill the stands with existing college football fans from West Texas.

John Jerome

After teaching in West Texas, Jerome went to work in 1959 as an editor for Sports Car Digest in Odessa, Texas.

KTTZ-TV

It features various regional musicians and industry insiders talking about West Texas' musical influence on the rest of the world.

Motley County Historical Museum

It was designed by Traweek's uncle, Charles Stephen Oates, a well-known West Texas builder.

Randy Hill

Randal W. Hill (born September 26, 1967 in Dallas, TX) is a West Texas entrepreneur, business leader and current president of Advanced Trailer and Equipment, L.P. Randy Hill gained his reputation as entrepreneur after spearheading the use of semi trailers that had been converted to transport, as well as dry agricultural products.

Redbreast sunfish

The species has been introduced as far west as Louisiana and West Texas.

South Plains College

In addition to their distance education programs, the school also provides Internet courses to its students as well as dual credit courses to high schools in the West Texas area.

Texas State Technical College System

TSTC also operates campuses in Harlingen (with a branch in Ingleside), Marshall (with a branch in Red Oak to open in 2014), and West Texas (with campuses in Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood, and Sweetwater), as well as TSTC Corporate College, which operates customized training programs for specific industries.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

One of TTUHSC's founding missions is still a focus today, which is making a special effort to recruit applicants from West Texas and from rural and border communities that will serve these communities after their education.

Tommy Hancock

Tommy Hancock (Tommy X. Hancock) is widely regarded as the godfather of West Texas music.

West Texas Historical Association

The West Texas Historical Association is an organization of both academics and laypersons dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the total history of West Texas, defined geographically as all Texas counties and portions of counties located west of Interstate 35.

White-Pool House

Lucy had a perceived health need to live in a dry climate like that of West Texas, and Charles’ grain business in Indiana had failed in the economic stress of the decades following the American Civil War.

Winkler County nurse whistleblower case

The Winkler County nurse whistleblower case was a series of legal proceedings in West Texas that centered around the retaliation upon two nurses who submitted an anonymous state medical board complaint against a physician in 2009.


Bill Noël

In 1936, he moved to the Permian Basin of West Texas to work as a chemist in the Gulf Oil Wickett refinery.

Bud Andrews

Andrews (first name pronounced SER CEE) was born in Lubbock to Curcy Andrews, Sr., originally from Honey Grove in Fannin County in northeast Texas, and the former Ollie Lee Townsend (1907–1993), who grew up on a ranch in Plains near Brownfield in West Texas.

Checkered garter snake

They are typically found near permanent bodies of water, such as streams and ponds, but have also been found in the semidesert region of the High Plains of West Texas.

Clayton Williams

Clayton, Jr., also known as "Claytie", was born in Alpine in the Big Bend country of far West Texas, but reared in his father's native Fort Stockton, the seat of geographically large Pecos County.

Deaf Smith County, Texas

Jesse Frank Ford, founder of Arrowhead Mills, led the opposition to the Deaf Smith site on grounds of contamination of the Ogallala Aquifer, the source of much of the water supply for West Texas.

Gene Stack

A native of Saginaw, Michigan, Stack signed a professional contract with the Lubbock Hubbers of the West Texas-New Mexico League in 1940.

History of Fort Worth, Texas

In January 1849, U.S. Army General William Jenkins Worth, an admired veteran of the Mexican-American War, proposed building ten forts to mark where the west Texas frontier began from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River.

Marfa Girl

The film follows a group of young people living in the West Texas town of Marfa near the Mexico–United States border.

Midland, Texas metropolitan area

The Midland Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Midland – in West Texas, anchored by the city of Midland.

Nepheline syenite

Rocks of this class also occur in Brazil (Serra de Tingua) containing sodalite and often much augite, in the western Sahara and Cape Verde Islands; also at Zwarte Koppies in the Transvaal, Madagascar, São Paulo in Brazil, Paisano Pass in West Texas and Montreal, Canada.

Odessa, Texas metropolitan area

The Odessa Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Ector – in West Texas, anchored by the city of Odessa.

Palmer, Texas

In both towns, director Bruce Beresford deliberately filmed more barren and isolated locations that more closely resembled the West Texas area.

Sierra Club v. Morton

Those who hike the Appalachian Trail into Sunfish Pond, New Jersey, and camp or sleep there, or run the Allagash in Maine, or climb the Guadalupes in West Texas, or who canoe and portage the Quetico Superior in Minnesota, certainly should have standing to defend those natural wonders before courts or agencies, though they live 3,000 miles away.