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Pampa, TX

Pampa, Texas
City
Pampa business district
Pampa business district
Location of Pampa, Texas
Location of Pampa, Texas
Gray County Pampa.svg
Coordinates: 35°32′35″N 100°57′53″W / 35.54306°N 100.96472°W / 35.54306; -100.96472Coordinates: 35°32′35″N 100°57′53″W / 35.54306°N 100.96472°W / 35.54306; -100.96472
Country  United States
State  Texas
County Gray
Government
 • Type Council-Manager
 • City Council Mayor Brad Pingel
John Studebaker
Chris Porter
Robert Dixon
Karen McClain
 • City Manager Richard Morris
Area
 • Total 9.0 sq mi (23.2 km2)
 • Land 9.0 sq mi (23.2 km2)
 • Water 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation 3,238 ft (987 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 17,994
 • Density 2,008/sq mi (775.4/km2)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes 79065-79066
Area code(s) 806
FIPS code 48-54912
GNIS feature ID 1364740
Website www.cityofpampa.org

Pampa is a city in Gray County, Texas, United States. The population was 17,994 as of the 2010 census. Pampa is the county seat of Gray County and is the principal city of the Pampa Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes both Gray and Roberts counties.

Pampa hosts the Top 'O Texas Rodeo each year in July, which brings competitors from Texas and the surrounding states to Gray County. The White Deer Land Company Museum, which showcases ranching exhibits, is located in downtown Pampa.

In 1888, the Santa Fe Railroad was constructed through the area where Pampa would be established. A rail station and telegraph office was built, and the townsite was laid out by George Tyng, manager of the White Deer Lands ranch. The town was first called "Glasgow", then "Sutton", and then the name was changed to "Pampa" after the pampas grasslands of South America at Mr. Tyng's suggestion. Timothy Dwight Hobart, a native of Vermont, sold plots of land for the town only to people who agreed to settle there and develop the land, and Pampa soon became a center for agriculture. Gas and oil were discovered in the Texas Panhandle in 1916. Pampa prospered greatly in the resulting oil boom, and the Gray County seat of government was moved in 1928 from Lefors to Pampa.

By the 1920s, Pampa was linked by rail to Hemphill County and Clinton, Oklahoma, through the combination of two similarly-named companies, the Clinton, Oklahoma, and Western Railroad Company and the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas. Both of these companies were soon leased and purchased by the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway, which held them until disestablishment in 1965.


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