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Stamford is a city on the border of Jones and Haskell counties in west-central Texas, United States.The population was 2,907 at the 2020 census. [3] Henry McHarg, president of the Texas Central Railroad, named the site in 1900 for his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut. [4]
Stamford High School is a public high school located in Stamford, Texas and classified as a 2A school by the University Interscholastic League (UIL). It is part of the Stamford Independent School District located in north central Jones County. In 2013, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency. [2]
SMS Ranches eventually became one of the largest landowners in Texas. At their peak, the SMS Ranches occupy considerable portions of twelve counties in the lower plains area of West Texas and comprise more than 300,000 acres (1,200 km 2). The ranches were named for the initials of the founder, Swante M. Swenson.
Saint John's Methodist Church is a historic church at S. Ferguson Street in Stamford, Texas. It was built in 1910 and added to the National Register in 1986.
Stamford High School won state football championships in 1955, 1956, 1958, 2012, and 2013. The team also won the 1959 game over Brady , but was forced to forfeit the game, the first instance in UIL football history (and only one of two such instances) where the championship was later forfeited.
Lake Stamford, a reservoir formed by Stamford Dam, is located 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Stamford, Texas, in southeastern Haskell County. The lake had a storage capacity in 1999 of 51,573 acre-feet (63,614,000 m 3 ) and drains an area of 368 square miles (950 km 2 ).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 1986, and designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1989. A two-story educational building was added in 1932 and another educational wing in 1960. The First Baptist Church was organized in Stamford in early 1900. Frank Shelby Groner became pastor in 1905.
Opened on 1 April 1941, the school was known as Arledge Field or Stamford-Arledge Field, [3] and it was assigned to United States Army Air Forces Gulf Coast Training Center (later Central Flying Training Command) 31st Flying Training Wing as a primary (level 1) pilot training airfield. [4]