When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Lubbock, Texas - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock,_Texas

   Lubbock County was founded in 1876. It was named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock, former Texas Ranger and brother of Francis Lubbock, governor of Texas during the Civil War. [14] As early as 1884, a U.S. post office existed in Yellow House Canyon. A small town, known as Old Lubbock, Lubbock, or North Town, was established about three miles to the east.

3. Lubbock County, Texas - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock_County,_Texas

   Lubbock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 census placed the population at 310,639. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Lubbock. [2] The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1891. [3] It is named for Thomas Saltus Lubbock, [4] a Confederate colonel and Texas Ranger (some sources give his first name as ...

4. Silent Wings Museum - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Wings_Museum

   The Lubbock site was initially chosen for the Army's glider school because of its dry climate, warm weather, mostly clear skies, and good will in the local community. The arid climate surroundings of the South Plains generally tend to create upward air currents and relatively few low-cloud formations, both of which are conditions deemed ...

5. Lubbock metropolitan area - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock_metropolitan_area

   The Lubbock metropolitan area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the South Plains region of West Texas, United States, that covers three counties – Crosby, Lubbock, and Lynn. As of the 2010 census , the Lubbock MSA had a population of 290,805, though a 2019 estimate placed the population at 322,257, [ 2 ] which ranks it the 157th ...

6. TBC Corporation - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBC_Corporation

   The Company changed its name to Tire & Battery Corporation in 1972. Eleven years later, Tire & Battery Corporation went public (NASDAQ: TBCC). In 2005, the company was purchased by Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA), one of Japan's major integrated trading and investment business enterprises.

7. West Texas and Lubbock Railway - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_and_Lubbock_Railway

   Iowa Pacific organized the West Texas and Lubbock Railway, which began operating the West Texas and Lubbock Railroad under lease in 2002. [4] In 2004 Iowa Pacific bought from RailAmerica the old WT&L, which still exists as a non-operating subsidiary . [ 5 ]