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Current time for El Paso and Hudspeth counties: 07:19, February 19, 2025 MST. Most of Texas is in the Central Time Zone with the exception being the two westernmost counties. El Paso County; Hudspeth County; Northwestern Culberson County near Guadalupe Mountains National Park unofficially observes Mountain Time Zone. [1]
Around 2008, the general public made a significant shift away from MapQuest to the much younger Google Maps service. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In July 2010, MapQuest announced [ 14 ] [ 15 ] plans to become the first major mapping site to embrace open-source mapping data , launching a new site [ 16 ] separate from its main site, entirely using data from the ...
Earth was established by William E. Halsell, who laid out the townsite in 1924. Originally Halsell named the city Fairlawn, but in 1925 it was renamed Earth when it was learned that there was already a town in Texas by the name of Fairlawn. [4] In order to find a new name the townspeople sent in suggestions, and the agreed-upon best name was ...
View is an unincorporated community in Taylor County, Texas, United States. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 277 and FM 1235, approximately thirteen miles southwest of Abilene. [1] The community is part of the Abilene Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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.
SH 47 was originally planned on August 21, 1923, along a previous section of SH 1A and SH 1C from near the Texas–Arkansas–Louisiana tripoint, northwest through Atlanta, then northeast through Texarkana to the Arkansas state line north of Texarkana. [3]
Telephone, TX postmark. Although the first settlers arrived in the area during the 1870s, a community did not develop until the mid-1880s. The community received its name because the only telephone in the area was located in a general store owned by Pete Hindman.
Junction is located approximately 115 miles (185 km) northwest of San Antonio and 140 miles (230 km) west of Austin in central Kimble County. It lies near the western and of the Texas Hill Country, which grades into the southernmost parts of the West Texas Rolling Plains, to the west of Junction.