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Plainview is a ghost town in southwestern Wharton County in the U.S. state of Texas. It was located at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 441 (FM 441) and Farm to Market Road 1163 (FM 1163), southwest of El Campo. The community had its own school from as early as 1916 until 1948.
The Santa Fe Railway came to Plainview in 1906, [10] and Wayland Baptist College was founded the same year. [11] In 1909, businessman Levi Schick opened the Schick Opera House. [12] The county's first motor-driven irrigation well was drilled five years later. [5] The Texas Land and Development Company was organized in Plainview in 1912.
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The Plainview Herald, formerly the Plainview Daily Herald, is the city's only remaining newspaper. It was acquired from local owners by Hearst Communications in 1979. It is among the oldest newspapers in Texas still in publication, and became fully computer paginated in 1994, the same year it began publishing an online edition.
In 2011, La Quinta gave up on pay-per-view in-room entertainment to focus on letting customers use their own devices. [citation needed] In 2012, La Quinta launched the Instant hold option, allowing customers to make last-minute reservations with their phone numbers. [8] In 2013, Blackstone started to pave the way for the sale of La Quinta. [9]
The highway follows the original routing of US 87 through the city of Plainview. When the new US 87 freeway was built to the west, this segment was redesignated Loop 445, the Plainview Loop, on January 31, 1967, and marked as a business route of US 87. [2] On June 21, 1990, Loop 445 was redesignated Bus. I-27-U. [1]
US 70 heads due east, meeting US 385 at Springlake, and has an interchange with Interstate 27/US 87 (I-27/US 87) in Plainview. [1] US 70 then arcs toward the south and becomes concurrent with US 62 in Floydada .
On November 22, 1940, the section from Plainview to 3.6 miles north of the Hale–Lubbock county line was cancelled. On March 6, 1941, the section of SH 194 from Slaton to Tahoka was cancelled. The current route parallels the Burlington Northern railway along its entire route, except for the final half mile in Plainview.