Temple (Texas)
| Temple | |||
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Location in Texas
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | June 29, 1881 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Texas | ||
| County : | Bell County | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 6 ′ N , 97 ° 22 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 66,102 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 390.4 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 169.3 km 2 (approx. 65 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 202 m | ||
| Postal code : | 76501 | ||
| Area code : | +1 254 | ||
| FIPS : | 48-72176 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 2412046 | ||
Temple is a city in Bell County and is located in the state of Texas in the United States .
geography
The city is approximately 25 miles east of Killeen , 25 miles south of Waco , 80 kilometers north of Austin and 60 kilometers west of Bremond . The Interstate 35 highway touches the city.
history
The city was founded in 1881 on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad and was named in honor of the company's chief engineer, Bernard Moore Temple . With the construction of another railway line, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad , the importance of the young city grew. However, the infrastructure was not very advanced, there were hardly any brick houses or paved roads, but there were a large number of saloons . The city therefore received the internal joke name “Tanglefoot”, which means something like: “Difficult to walk on foot”.
Today Temple is an important center for medicine and has several hospitals.
Demographic data
In July 2009 there was a population of 58,886 people in 26,005 households. The average age at that time was just under 37 years.
| growth of population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1890 | 4047 | - | |
| 1900 | 7065 | 74.6% | |
| 1910 | 10,993 | 55.6% | |
| 1920 | 11,033 | 0.4% | |
| 1930 | 15,345 | 39.1% | |
| 1940 | 15,344 | -0% | |
| 1950 | 25,467 | 66% | |
| 1960 | 30,419 | 19.4% | |
| 1970 | 33,431 | 9.9% | |
| 1980 | 42,483 | 27.1% | |
| 1990 | 46,150 | 8.6% | |
| 2000 | 54,514 | 18.1% | |
| 2010 | 66.102 | 21.3% | |
| 1890-2000, 2010 | |||
sons and daughters of the town
- Hubert Arnold (1945–2019), jazz musician
- Sammy Baugh (1914-2008), football player and coach
- Vincent Burnelli (1895–1964), aeronautical engineer
- Betty Jo Christian (* 1936), lawyer and attorney
- Boots Douglas (≈1908–?), Jazz drummer and band leader
- Noel Francis (1906–1959), actress
- Bernard Anthony Harris (born 1956), astronaut
- Leslie G. Hunt (born 1954), painter
- Maggi Payne (* 1945), composer and flautist
- Ted Poe (born 1948), politician
- Cheyenne Rushing (born 1981), actress
- Mark Skolnick (* 1946), molecular and human geneticist
- Rip Torn (1931-2019), actor
- Cecil F. White (1900–1992), politician, member of the US House of Representatives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012
- ↑ US Census ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 16, 2012
