Guthrie, Texas
| Guthrie | |
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| County seat | |
King County Courthouse in Guthrie
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 Guthrie
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| Coordinates: 33°37′14″N 100°19′22″W / 33.62056°N 100.32278°WCoordinates: 33°37′14″N 100°19′22″W / 33.62056°N 100.32278°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Texas |
| County | King County |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 160 |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP codes | 79236 |
| Area code(s) | 806 |
Guthrie is a small town in, and the county seat of, King County in the U.S. state of Texas. It lies at the junction of U.S. Routes 82 and 83, ninety-six miles east of Lubbock. It serves as the principal headquarters of the Four Sixes Ranch. and is the only community within its namesake Census Designated Place (CDP). As of the 2010 Census the population was 160.
Guthrie is located at 33°37′14″N 100°19′22″W / 33.62056°N 100.32278°W (33.621341, -100.8322).
Guthrie's history begins in 1883, when the Louisville Land and Cattle Company in Louisville, Kentucky purchased several hundred acres in what later became King County. Named after Louisville Land and Cattle stockholder W.H. Guthrie, the community's townsite was platted in 1891 by A.C. Thackitt, who had built Guthrie's first residence. When King County was organized that same year, Louisville Land and Cattle proposed the platting of a company townsite, to be named Ashville, to serve as the county's seat. Thackitt strongly opposed this proposition and led a charge to bring the seat to Guthrie instead. Thackitt's hotly contested campaign ultimately proved successful, and he not only succeeded in making Guthrie the county seat but was also elected to serve as King County's first county judge. Late in 1891, the Guthrie post office opened to the public.
The next year, Thackitt and a man by the name of Charlie Bradford brought in lumber from the neighboring community of Seymour and constructed Guthrie's first school; a small, one-room building. A larger school followed in 1895, though the lone teacher continued to depend upon schools in Seymour and Benjamin for curriculum. Proprietor John Gibson began to keep a stock of school books at his Guthrie general store in 1897, decreasing the school's dependence upon other districts.
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