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Andrews
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city in and county seat of Andrews County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Andrews
- Named after
- Richard Andrews
- Type
- Elected(non-compensatory)Mayor-Council/ appointed City Manager
- City manager
- Steve Eggleston
- Mayor
- Jason Harper
- Total
- 6.96 sq mi (18.03 km )
- Land
- 6.95 sq mi (18.00 km )
- Water
- 0.012 sq mi (0.03 km )
- Elevation
- 3,176 ft (968 m)
- Estimate 2022
- 13,276
- Density
- 1,941/sq mi (749.3/km )
- Demonym
- Andrewsite
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 48-03216
- Website
- cityofandrews .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Andrews
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Andrews County
- Population
- 13487
- Area
- 12.71796
- Elevation
- 968
- Capital of
- Andrews County
- Official website
- www.cityofandrews.org
- Image
- Andrews, Texas, Water Tower IMG 0372.JPG
- Households
- 4512
- Dialing code
- 432
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Encyclopedic overview
Andrews is a city in and the county seat of Andrews County in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Andrews sits to the far southwest within the Texas Panhandle's plains, about 30 miles east of New Mexico.
Andrews was incorporated on February 2, 1937. Both the city and county were named for Richard Andrews, the first Texan soldier to die in the Texas Revolution.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andrews” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.