Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Eastland
- Total
- 7.13 sq mi (18.46 km )
- Land
- 7.00 sq mi (18.12 km )
- Water
- 0.13 sq mi (0.34 km )
- Elevation
- 1,427 ft (435 m)
- Density
- 330/sq mi (130/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 48-60632
- Website
- https://www.rangertx.gov/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Ranger is a city in Eastland County, Texas, United States. Its population was 2,300 at the 2020 census. Ranger College, a community college, is the second-largest employer in the community.
During the 1920s, Ranger, like nearby Cisco, Eastland, and Desdemona, was a petroleum boomtown.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ranger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.