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The mountain was the site of the Packsaddle Mountain Fight with 21 Apache Tribesmen on August 4, 1873 and was the last major Indian battle in the area. The fight on Packsaddle Mountain was precipitated when a woman from the Moss Ranch (in what is now Llano County) came into the ranch house with an arrow sticking out of her side.
Ding Dong is situated on Texas State Highway 195 along the Lampasas River, 8 mi (13 km) south of Killeen in southwestern Bell County. [4] It is also located 20 mi (32 km) west of Salado via Farm to Market Road 2484 , as well as 58 mi (93 km) north of Austin , the state capital.
In 1986, the state formed the Texas Commission for Indian Affairs, later renamed the Texas Indian Commission, [2] to manage trust lands and assist three federally recognized tribes headquartered in Texas. However, the commission was dissolved in 1989. [3]
Killeen is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Bell County.According to the 2020 census, its population was 153,095, [5] making it the 19th-most populous city in Texas and the largest of the three principal cities of Bell County.
The population then was 600 whites and 60 black slaves. [5] Belton [9] was designated as the county seat in 1851. The last serious Indian raid in the area occurred in 1859. [5] Bell County assumed its present boundaries [5] with the 1860 resurvey of the line between Bell and Milam Counties. Confederate statue at Bell County Courthouse
The city straddles the line between Bell and Williamson counties; the center of the city is mostly in Bell County, but the slight majority of the city's area is in Williamson County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.2 km 2 ), of which 0.004 square miles (0.01 km 2 ), or 0.24%, is water.
Killeen–Temple is a metropolitan statistical area in Central Texas that covers three counties: Bell, Coryell, and Lampasas. As of the 2023 census estimates, the MSA had a population of 501,333. [3] Similar to how the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area of North Texas is often called the Metroplex, locals sometimes refer to this area as the ...
Belton is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.Belton is the county seat of Bell County and is the fifth largest city in the Killeen-Temple metropolitan area. In 2020, the population of Belton was 23,054, [4] and the metro region had a population of 450,051 [5] according to US Census estimates.