Sweetwater (Texas)
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Location in Texas
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1881 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Texas | ||
| County : | Nolan County | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 28 ′ N , 100 ° 24 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 10,762 (as of 2013) | ||
| Population density : | 413.9 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 26.0 km 2 (approx. 10 mi 2 ) of which 26.0 km 2 (approx. 10 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 661 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 79556 | ||
| Area code : | +1 325 | ||
| FIPS : | 48-71540 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1348139 | ||
| Website : | www.cityofsweetwatertx.com | ||
| Mayor : | Jim McKenzie | ||
Sweetwater is a city with the status City and the seat of the county government ( County Seat ) in Nolan County in the US state Texas with 10,762 inhabitants (2013).
geography
Sweetwater is affected in the south by the Interstate 20 highway and is 60 kilometers west of Abilene and 340 kilometers west of the city of Dallas .
history
In 1877 bison hunters settled in the area and opened a post office called the Blue Goose . Legend has it that local cowboys hunted and devoured a blue heron , assuming it was a blue-plumed goose. The place was later renamed in reference to the nearby sweetwater creek , a small, very clean river, initially in Sweet Water (written in two separate words) and in 1881 it was made the administrative seat of Nolan County. In the same year the Texas and Pacific Railway also opened a train station there. In 1918 the name was changed to Sweetwater . The main livelihood of the inhabitants then as now is agriculture.
County Courthouse
Municipal Building
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Demographic data
In 2013 a population of 10,762 people was determined, which corresponds to a decrease of 5.7% compared to 2000. The mean age of 38.2 years in 2013 was above the value of Texas, which was 34.0 years. 7.0% of today's residents can be traced back to immigrants from Ireland , 6.4% came from Germany.
sons and daughters of the town
- Robert C. Prim (* 1921), mathematician and computer scientist
- Ray Doggett (1936–2002), rockabilly musician, songwriter and producer
- Royce Porter (* 1939), country and rockabilly musician and songwriter
- Blackjack Mulligan (1941-2016), wrestler and American football player
- Barry Windham (born 1960), wrestler
- John Layfield (born 1966), wrestler
Trivia
The place or the train station "Sweetwater", in which the film " Play me the song of death " is set, is a fictional place and has no relation to the Texan Sweetwater.
Individual evidence
Web links
- rootsweb.ancestry - Pioneer Museum