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Childress
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city in and county sear of Childress County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Childress
- Mayor
- Cary Preston
- Total
- 8.31 sq mi (21.53 km )
- Land
- 8.26 sq mi (21.39 km )
- Water
- 0.054 sq mi (0.14 km )
- Elevation
- 1,949 ft (594 m)
- Density
- 732.2/sq mi (282.71/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 48-14668
- Website
- www .cityofchildress .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Childress
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Childress County
- Population
- 5737
- Area
- 21.531565
- Elevation
- 570
- Capital of
- Childress County
- Official website
- childresstexas.com
- Image
- Veterans Memorial at the Childress County Courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 1936
- Dialing code
- 940
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- Commons category
- Childress, Texas
- Commons gallery
- Childress, Texas
- postal code
- 79201
- native label
- Childress
- inception
- 1890-00-00
- P8168
- Chagall
- water as percent of area
- 0.6449
- per capita income
- 21691
- IPA transcription
- ˈtʃɪldrɪs
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Encyclopedic overview
Childress (/ˈtʃɪldrɪs/ CHIL-driss) (established 1887; incorporated 1890) is a city in and the county seat of Childress County, Texas, United States. Its population was 5,737 at the 2020 census.
The city and county were named after George Campbell Childress, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, who was the principal author of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The county and city were incorporated more than four decades after Childress' death.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Childress” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.