Kilgore
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city in the state of Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Region
- East Texas
- Counties
- Gregg , Rusk
- Founded
- 1872 ; 154 years ago ( 1872 )
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- R.E. Spradlin III
- City manager
- Rachel Rowe
- Total
- 18.64 sq mi (48.29 km )
- Land
- 18.61 sq mi (48.20 km )
- Water
- 0.035 sq mi (0.09 km )
- Elevation
- 351 ft (107 m)
- Density
- 718.7/sq mi (277.5/km )
- Demonym
- Kilgoreites
- Metro
- $20.259 billion (2022)
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 75662-3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- tourist destination
- Part of
- Piney Woods
- Official name
- Kilgore
- Demonym
- Kilgoriensis
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Continent
- North America
- Population
- 300
- Area
- 40.703884
- Elevation
- 109
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Official website
- cityofkilgore.com
- Image
- Kilgore May 2016 16 (Main Street).jpg
- Households
- 5231
- Dialing code
- 430
- Motto
- Urbs Stellarum
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kilgore, Texas
- described at URL
- www.cityofkilgore.com/153/About
- Stack Exchange tag
- travel.stackexchange.com/tags/kilgore
- native label
- Kilgorium
- Commons gallery
- Kilgore, Texas
- twinned administrative body
- Rzhyshchiv
- Commons category
- Kilgore, Texas
- short name
- K-town
- hashtag
- Kilgore
- postal code
- 75663
- water as percent of area
- 0.2177
- different from
- Kilgore
- per capita income
- 25528
- social media followers
- 2600
- inception
- 1872-00-00
- nickname
- Urbs Stellarum
- contact page URL
- www.cityofkilgore.com/142/Contact
- IPA transcription
- ˈkɪlɡɔɹ
- date of incorporation
- 1931-02-00
- median income
- 55810
- male population
- 6027
- female population
- 6679
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Cities
- official shop URL
- visitkilgore.com/shop
- Köppen climate classification
- humid subtropical climate
- name in native language
- Kilgore
- language used
- Spanish
- phone number
- +1(903) 984-5081
- time of earliest written record
- 1872-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Kilgore (/ˈkɪlɡɔːr/ ) is a city in the Gregg and Rusk counties in Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 13,376. It is located where Interstate 20 and US 259 converge south of the Sabine River.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kilgore” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.