Goodnight, Texas | |
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| Coordinates: 35°02′04″N101°11′11″W / 35.03444°N 101.18639°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Texas |
| County | Armstrong |
| Elevation | 3,150 ft (960 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 806 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1358160 [1] |
Goodnight is an unincorporated community in Armstrong County, Texas, United States. [1] The community is part of the Amarillo Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2000, the population was 18. [2]
Goodnight was named for pioneer rancher Charles Goodnight. [3] [2]
A folk-rock band called Goodnight, Texas was named after the town of Goodnight, located 1,415 miles (2,277 km) directly between their hometowns of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and San Francisco, California. The band had performed in town three times as of 2017. [4]
The Charles and Mary Ann (Molly) Goodnight Ranch House is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [5]
Goodnight is located on U.S. Highway 287 at the edge of the Llano Estacado, [2] 14 mi (23 km) southeast of Claude and 40 mi (64 km) southeast of Amarillo [6] in northeastern Armstrong County.
Goodnight's first school was established in 1891, with Goodnight College operating from 1898 through 1917. The school was run in cooperation with the local Baptist church. [2] Today, the community is served by the Clarendon Independent School District.
Swisher County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,971. Its county seat is Tulia. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1890. It is named for James G. Swisher, a soldier of the Texas Revolution and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
Randall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 140,753. Its county seat is Canyon. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1889. It is named for Horace Randal, a Confederate brigadier general killed at the Battle of Jenkins Ferry. The reason the county name differs from his is because the bill creating the county misspelled Randal's name.
Potter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 118,525. Its county seat is Amarillo. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1887. It is named for Robert Potter, a politician, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and the Texas Secretary of the Navy. Potter County is included in the Amarillo metropolitan area.
Carson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,807. The county seat is Panhandle. The county was founded in 1876 and later organized in 1888. It is named for Samuel Price Carson, the first secretary of state of the Republic of Texas.
Briscoe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,435. Its county seat is Silverton. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1892. It is named for Andrew Briscoe, a soldier during the Texas Revolution.
Armstrong County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population of Armstrong County was 1,848. It is in the Texas Panhandle and its county seat is Claude.
Claude is a city in and the county seat of Armstrong County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,186 at the 2020 census. It is located east of Amarillo in the south Texas Panhandle. Claude is part of the Amarillo Metropolitan Statistical Area but is some thirty miles east of Amarillo.
Panhandle is the county seat of Carson County, Texas, United States. The population of the town was 2,378 at the 2020 census. Panhandle is part of the Amarillo metropolitan statistical area.
Amarillo is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. It is the 14th-most populous city in Texas and the most populous city in the Texas panhandle. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The estimated population of Amarillo was 200,393 as of April 1, 2020, comprising nearly half of the population of the panhandle. The Amarillo metropolitan area had an estimated population of 308,297 as of 2020.
Charles Goodnight, also known as Charlie Goodnight, was a rancher in the American West. In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
The Amarillo Globe-News is a daily newspaper in Amarillo, Texas, owned by Gannett. The newspaper is based at downtown's FirstBank Southwest Tower, but is printed at a facility in Lubbock.
Chappell Hill is an unincorporated community in the eastern portion of Washington County, Texas, United States. It is located inside Stephen F. Austin's original colony, and the land is some of the oldest Anglo-settled in the state. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 600 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
Hawkinsville was a community in Matagorda County, Texas, United States. In 2018, there were a few homes nearby, several businesses one mile to the south, and the name appeared on maps, but one source refers to the place in the past tense, while a second source states that the town disappeared in the 1950s. The town site is between Cedar Lane and Sargent.
Dawn is an unincorporated community in eastern Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 52 in 2000.
Morris Ranch is a ghost town, located 8.5 miles (13.7 km) southwest of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The area was begun as a thoroughbred horse ranch by New Yorker Francis Morris in 1856, and the town grew up around it. In 1962, the school district was merged with Fredericksburg Independent School District, and the Morris Ranch School ceased operations. The Morris Ranch Schoolhouse was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1980, and added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas, on March 29, 1983.
The Morris Ranch Schoolhouse is a ranch school located on Morris Ranch Road, 8.5 miles (13.7 km) southwest of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1981. Designed by Alfred Giles, who also designed the 1882 Fredericksburg Memorial Library, the schoolhouse was built in 1893. Winning thoroughbred trainer Max Hirsch began his career on Morris Ranch and attended classes in the schoolhouse.
The Charles and Mary Ann (Molly) Goodnight Ranch House, near Goodnight, Texas, was built in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
James Wadsworth Ritchie was an American sportsman and rancher who was prominent in New York Society during the Gilded Age.
Mary Ann Dyer Goodnight was an American cattlewoman, conservationist, and educator married to prominent Texas rancher and cattleman Charles Goodnight. She was a 1991 inductee of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. Mary Ann is credited with saving the Southern Plains Bison from extinction.
The JA Ranch is a historic cattle ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon in Armstrong County, Texas. Founded in 1876 by Charles Goodnight and John George Adair, it is the oldest cattle ranching operation in the Texas Panhandle. Its headquarters area was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 for its association with Goodnight, one of the most influential cattle barons of the late 19th century. The ranch is an ongoing business, operated by Adair's descendants.
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